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Banshan type jar
From the collection of National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler). Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Vase: spheroid shape with short neck and flaring lip. Two flat vertical ears at lip and two flat loop handles just below widest point of body. Body: soft, fine-grained, buff-colored clay. Potted thin. Decoration: neck, inside of lip and upper part of body painted with symbolic patterns in black and chocolate brown.
National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler)’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineBanshan type jar. 5000-2000 BCE. National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler), Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment. CC0.
