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). The Xindian culture is a relatively late Neolithic culture and overlaps with the Chinese Bronze Age.

It is made from a buff-coloured pottery, the surface colour varying in places, even to small areas of black. It has a wide body, two wide handles and a flared mouth...

Fine Tall Chinese Neolithic Siwa Culture Burnished Black Pottery Jar

This attractively-shaped pottery vessel was made over 3,000 years ago by peoples of the Siwa Culture (c.1350 BC) from present day Gansu or Qinghai province. It is quite "heavily-potted", has high handles, a saddle-shaped mouth and a wide body that tapers down to a small circular flat base...

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

This attractively-shaped pottery vessel was made over 3,000 years ago by peoples of the Siwa Culture (c.1350 BC) from present day Gansu or Qinghai province. It is quite "heavily-potted", has high handles, a saddle-shaped mouth and a wide body that tapers down to a small circular flat base...

Rare Chinese Neolithic Siwa Culture Burnished Pottery Jar (c. 1350 BC)

This attractively-shaped pottery vessel was made over 3,000 years ago by peoples of the Siwa Culture (c.1350 BC) from present day Gansu or Qinghai province. It is quite highly-fired, has high handles, a saddle-shaped mouth and a wide body that tapers down to a small circular flat base...

Rare Chinese Neolithic Pottery Jar - Siwa Culture (c. 1350 BC)

This attractively-shaped pottery jar dates to the Siwa culture (c. 1350 BC), one of the later Chinese Neolithic cultures overlapping the Bronze Age. It has a wide body with a relatively small flat base. There are two loop handles joining the shoulder to the mouth which is of the form sometimes referred to as "saddle-shaped"...

Chinese Neolithic Pottery Tripod

This pottery tripod vessel was made over 3,000 years ago during the Chinese Neolithic or early Bronze Age. It is not always easy to determine exactly which culture such vessels come from as similar vessels were made by various Chinese cultures. This example was excavated from Gansu province in the northwest of present-day China and we date it to possibly the early part of the Xindian culture (c. 1250 BC) or as early as the Qijia culture (c. 2050 - 1700 BC)...

Chinese Neolithic Pottery Tripod

This pottery tripod vessel was made over 3,000 years ago during the Chinese Neolithic or early Bronze Age. It is not always easy to determine exactly which culture such vessels come from as similar vessels were made by various Chinese cultures. This example was excavated from Gansu province in the northwest of present-day China and we date it to possibly the early part of the Xindian culture (c. 1250 BC) or as early as the Qijia culture (c. 2050 - 1700 BC)...

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

This rare 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.

It is made from a pale pottery that is quite highly-fired for its type...

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...

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. Xindian pottery is quite distinctive and rarer than pottery from some earlier Chinese Neolithic cultures: the painted designs are quite different and the pottery has different characteristics.

This is a nicely-shaped examp...

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. There are decorative "notches" at the top of the handle ...

Fine Chinese Tang Dynasty Sancai Glazed Pottery Lady

This elegant pottery figure of a lady was made during the Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 906). The lady wears flowing robes and stands alert with hands clasped together across her chest. Note also the hairstyle. It is made from a high-fired creamy-white coloured pottery. The body is coated in finely-crackled green, straw and amber glazes while the head and face remain unglazed, having been cold painted with traces of black and red pigments remaini...

A rare copper-red decorated "three-fish" with rounded side and slightly everted rim, decorated around the sides in deep copper red of three fish, supported on a tall solid splayed foot with Da Ming Xuan De Nien Zhe six characters mark. Ming Dynasty possibly of the period or later also found at Indonesia Java Island. Condition is very good, no any chip, no any crack and free from any restoration. Diameter; 8,9 cm, Height: 9 cm.

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. Xindian pottery is quite distinctive and rarer than pottery from some earlier Chinese Neolithic cultures: the painted designs are quite different and the pottery has different characteristics.

This is a nicely-shaped examp...

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. It is made from a fairly unrefined clay fired to ...

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. It is made from a fairly unrefined cla...