Rounded bowl
Banpo phase, c. 5000-4000 BCE
Description
Shallow hemispherical bowl with rounded sides curving inward to a slightly flattened convex base; red earthenware lightly burnished on interior and exterior; decorated on the exterior around the lip with a wide band painted in brown slip before firing; some whitish encrustations from burial. Early Yangshao culture, Banpo type. From the middle Yellow River valley region, Shaanxi province.
Dimensions
H. 8.4 x Diam. 21.8 cm (3 5/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
Provenance
[J.J. Lally & Co., New York, January 1999] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (1999-2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.
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