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Stem cup

Stem cup

Chinese

Stem cup with wide, everted, dish-form mouth, cylindrical body, and hollow cylindrical stem perforated with small horizontal quadrilateral openings; thinly potted, lightly burnished blackened earthenware with incised and openwork decoration. Longshan culture; from Shandong province.

Black earthenware

Neolithic period, Shandong Longshan culture, c. 2600-2000 BCE

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