Rare Chinese Neolithic Xindian Culture Pottery Jar

Chinese: Antiquities: Early Ceramics Pre AD 1000: item #916770
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Rare Chinese Neolithic Xindian Culture Pottery Jar

This rare pottery jar was made around 3,000 years ago by peoples of the Neolithic Xindian culture (c. 1200 - 500 BC). The Xindian culture is a relatively late Neolithic culture and overlaps with the Chinese Bronze Age. Xindian pottery is rarer and generally much less refined, more coarse and brittle than pottery from some earlier Chinese Neolithic cultures.  ... Click for details

Fine Chinese Neolithic Pottery Jar - Siwa Culture

Chinese: Antiquities: Early Ceramics Pre AD 1000: item #916769
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Fine Chinese Neolithic Pottery Jar - Siwa Culture c. 1350 BC

This attractively-shaped pottery vessel was made over 3,000 years ago by people of the Siwa Culture (c. 1350 BC). Two handles stretch from the wide saddle-shaped mouth to the shoulder of the vessel. The differing colours of the surface, from grey to an attractive orange, are as a result of uneven temperatures in the kiln during firing. It is fairly highly-fi... Click for details

Tang brown glazed bottle

Chinese: Antiquities: Early Ceramics Pre AD 1000: item #914487
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Fine and rare dark brown tea dust glazed vase from Henan, Tang Dynasty, possibly Huangdao kiln. Please see last enlargement for a similar piece excavated at the Huangye kiln, Gongyi, Henan. Excellent original condition, there is one bubble burst on the side noted in enlargements. H: 16cm/6.2in and D: 11cm/4.2in.

Fine Rare Chinese Neolithic Qijia Culture Tripod

Chinese: Antiquities: Early Ceramics Pre AD 1000: item #914189

Fine & Rare Chinese Han Dynasty Pottery Amphora

Chinese: Antiquities: Early Ceramics Pre AD 1000: item #909713
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Fine & Rare Chinese Han Dynasty Pottery Amphora

A superbly conceived design; jars of this general type have been found in tombs dating as far back as the Spring and Autumn Period (770-475 BC) and are thought by many archaeologists to be anthropomorphic, based on the female human form. 

This particular example was made some 2,000 years ago durin... Click for details

Fine Pair Tall Chinese Han Dynasty Glazed Jars +TL Test

Chinese: Antiquities: Early Ceramics Pre AD 1000: item #907337
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Fine Pair Tall Chinese Han Dynasty Glazed Hu Jars with Oxford TL Test

These outstanding pottery jars were made during the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220). They have moulded taotie mask handles with incised bands and rings around the waist, shoulder and mouth, and both with nice areas of slivery iridescence around the shoulder area They are in excellent condition with no restoration or repair, apart from, if this can be ... Click for details

Fine LARGE Chinese Neolithic Pottery Jar - Siwa Culture

Chinese: Antiquities: Early Ceramics Pre AD 1000: item #900877
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Fine Large Chinese Neolithic Pottery Jar - Siwa Culture

This superb and truely impressive pottery vessel was made over 3,000 years ago by people of the Siwa Culture (c. 1350 BC). It has been fired to an attractive orange colour and the different shades of the surface colour are as a result of uneven temperatures in the kiln during firing. Two handles stretch from the wide saddle-shaped mouth to the shoulder of the vesse... Click for details

Tall Chinese Neolithic Banpo Amphora + Oxford TL Test

Chinese: Antiquities: Early Ceramics Pre AD 1000: item #900875
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Very Rare Chinese Neolithic Banpo Amphora with Oxford TL Test

This very rare pottery amphora was made over 6,000 years ago during the Banpo Phase (c 4800 - 4300 BC) of the Yangshao Culture. It is quite "heavily-potted" yet of a particularly slender form with a pointed bottom and a flared mouth. This has been made in three parts, upper & lower body and mouth, with these parts (and the handles) luted together and then c... Click for details

Very Rare Chinese Neolithic Pottery Amphora - Banpo

Chinese: Antiquities: Early Ceramics Pre AD 1000: item #900873
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Very Rare Chinese Neolithic Pottery Amphora - Banpo

This very rare pottery amphora was made over 6,000 years ago during the Banpo Phase (c 4800 - 4300 BC) of the Yangshao Culture. The surface has been decorated with what are probably impressions of straw or similar, and a strip of "pie crust" decoration around the base of the neck. Over much of the surface are "etched" traces of ancient root/plant or crystalline growt... Click for details

Very Rare Large Chinese Han Dynasty Amphora

Chinese: Antiquities: Early Ceramics Pre AD 1000: item #900869
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Very Rare Large Chinese Han Dynasty Amphora

This rare and interesting pottery jar was made during the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220). Although many "anthropomorphic" examples are known (those with the "swirls" to the body possibly representing the female form), examples such as this are extremely rare. Furthermore, this is larger than most with a height of 24.5 cm (9.5 inches). ... Click for details