Chinese Neolithic Qijia Culture Cord-Impressed Twin-Handled Pottery Jar (4,000 Years Old)

This unusual pottery jar was made some 4,000 years ago by peoples of the Neolithic Qijia Culture (c. 2050 - 1700 BC), in the north of China, what is now eastern Gansu province. They produced a variety of pottery vessels including cord-impressed pottery of many shapes and sizes.

This example is quite heavily-potted and made from a buff-coloured gritty pottery...

Fine & Rare Chinese Neolithic Pottery Jar with Decoration - Siwa Culture (c. 1350 BC)

This nicely-shaped pottery jar dates to the Siwa culture (c. 1350 BC), one of the later Chinese Neolithic cultures overlapping the Chinese Bronze Age. It is quite highly-fired with a surface colour of an attractive orange-red, although with small areas of grey, and has a burnished surface making it smooth to the touch and a pleasure to handle. It has a wide body with a relatively small flat base...

Chinese Neolithic Xindian Culture Painted Pottery Jar

This 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...

Fine & Rare Chinese Neolithic Pottery Jar - Caiyuan Culture

This rare pottery jar was made over 4,000 years ago by peoples of the Caiyuan Culture (c. 2600 - 2200 BC) and comes from the Ningxia Autonomous Region in the north of China. It is finely-potted and quite highly-fired. It has an attractive form with its wide body, neck, wide mouth and single handle giving it the form of a ewer. The surface has been burnished to a smooth finish...

A rare qingbai glazed with iron brown spots and Children sleeping figure, unglazed with spurs mark base.Good condition excepted minor glaze flake to upper rim side, no any chip, no any crack and free from any restoration. Late Southern Song to Yuan Dynasty, from a long time private collections. Wide : 15,2 cm and Height: 8 cm.

Chinese Neolithic Xindian Culture Painted Pottery Jar

This 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...

Rare Chinese Neolithic Three-Handled Pottery Jar - Banshan (c. 2600 - 2300 BC)

This very rare and unusual pottery jar was made over 4,000 years ago during the Banshan phase (c. 2600 - 2300 BC) of the Majiayao Culture from present day Gansu province. Banshan pottery is usually recognised as being finely burnished and elaborately painted, but more unusual vessels such as this were also made and are sometimes found alongside the painted vessels...

Very Rare Chinese Neolithic Double-Rimmed Pottery Jar - Banshan (c. 2600 - 2300 BC)

This very rare and unusual small pottery jar was made over 4,000 years ago during the Banshan phase (c. 2600 - 2300 BC) of the Majiayao Culture from present day Gansu province. Banshan pottery is usually recognised as being finely burnished and elaborately painted, but more unusual vessels such as this were also made and are sometimes found alongside the painted vessels...

Large Chinese Neolithic Machang Painted Pottery Jar

This attractively-shaped pottery jar was made over 4,000 years ago during the Machang Phase (c. 2300 - 2000 BC) of the Majiayao culture, also known as the Gansu-Yangshao culture, from present day Gansu or Qinghai province.

It is made from a pale buff-coloured pottery that is quite highly-fired. It has a wide globular body with a small flat base, a fairly short neck and flared mouth. On opposing sides at the waist are two loop handles...

A beautifully and fine blue and white covered box decorated with a lively carp swimming among aquatic plants, symbolizing abundance and continuously prosperity. Around the shoulder is an inscription written in elegant approximately middle of 14th Century or Late Yuan Dynasty,it's rare to found inscription on the Yuan Dynasty pieces like David vases in the British Museum London. Condition is perfect with no any chip, no any crack and free from any restoration...

A superbly blue and white Yuhuchunping painted with seven level and main decorated with four peony scrolls and also the shaped with larger size in bottom area, slightly different from Yuan Dynasty if we compare carefully, Found recovery from Sumatera Island, I believed it because purchased from Batam Island Indonesia. Condition is very good, no any chip, no any crack and free from any restoration. Early Ming Dynasty Hongwu period. Height:32 cm, Mouth rim: 8,3 cm, Foot rim: 12,8 cm.

Rare Chinese Neolithic Painted Pottery Jar - Xindian Culture, Tangwang type

This very rare pottery jar is of the Tangwang type and dates to the Xindian Culture (c. 1200 - 500 BC)...

Three Rare Chinese Neolithic Painted Pottery Jars - Xindian Culture, Tangwang type (c. 1200 - 500 BC).

These three very rare pottery jars are of the Tangwang type and date to the Xindian Culture (c. 1200 - 500 BC). The Xindian culture is a relatively late Neolithic culture and overlaps with the Chinese Bronze Age.

There are made from quite a brittle reddish-pottery, coated in a red wash and painted in "swirling" and geometric patterns in a mineral-based pigment. They each have two loop...

Rare Large Chinese Neolithic Painted Pottery Jar - Qijia Culture

This very rare and interesting pottery jar was made around 4,000 years ago by potters of the Qijia culture (c. 2050 - 1700 BC) , from present day Gansu or Qinghai province. Most pottery from the Qijia culture tends to be fairly small and thinly-potted unpainted twin-handled cups although larger painted vessels such as this are known.

This jar is made from quite a high-fired buff-coloured pottery, It has a wide body and wide...

Rare Chinese Neolithic Decorated Pottery Jar - Banshan Phase

This very rare and interesting pottery jar was made over 4,000 years ago during the Banshan Phase of the Majiayao culture (c. 2600 - 2300 BC) , from present day Gansu province. Banshan pottery is usually recognised as being finely burnished and elaborately painted, but more unusual vessels such as this were also made and are sometimes found alongside the painted vessels.

This jar is quite "heavily-potted" and made from quite a...

Very Rare Chinese Neolithic Xindian / Tangwang Painted Pottery Jar with Zoomorphic Patterns

This extremely rare and interesting pottery jar was made 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. This jar is of the Tangwang type and is finer in its construction compared to the majority of other Xindian vessels that tend to be fairly coarse. It is quite "heavily-potted" and ...

A nice and well balance potted Meiping vase, decorated with two reserved white on blue Phoenix flight among clouds scroll in octagonal shaped. Condition is good excepted small piece re-stuck and re-glued to mouth rim area, otherwise is no any chip and the other restoration. Yuan to Early Ming period. Height: 21,7 cm

Chinese Yaozhou celadon bowl, Northern Song. 18 cm diameter. Bowl has been repaired at the rim.