Wide mouthed jar

Compressed ovoid vessel with wide mouth, thickened lip, and body curving inward to a flat base; red earthenware textured extensively below the plain lip with abstract patterns created by impressing the clay surface repeatedly with an implement before firing; remains of earth from burial encrusted over the entirety of the vessel. Early Yangshao culture, Banpo type. From the middle Yellow River valley region, Shaanxi province.