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Object Details
- Description
- Neolithic, Kansu type
- Vase: wide bellied with cylindrical neck and straight lip. Two flat loop handles join neck and body.
- Body: soft fine-grained reddish brown clay, potted thin.
- Glaze: none.
- Decoration: upper part of body painted with symbolic patterns in black and purplish brown.
- Previous custodian or owner
- George Findlay Andrew (1887-1971)
- Provenance
- To 1930
- George Findlay Andrew (1887-1971), Gansu, China to 1930 [1]
- From 1930
- Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from George Findlay Andrew, Gansu, China, through Carl W. Bishop in 1930 [2]
- Notes:
- [1] Object file, undated folder sheet note. See also account book for Freer Gallery of Art Expedition Fund, February 10, 1930 to June 30, 1932, second page of Gold Account.
- [2] See note 1.
- Credit Line
- Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
- 2000 BCE
- Period
- Neolithic period
- Accession Number
- F1930.98
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Earthenware with iron pigments
- Dimensions
- H x W: 29.7 x 26 cm (11 11/16 x 10 1/4 in)
- Style
- Gansu ware
- Origin
- Gansu province, China
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- Gansu ware
- Neolithic period (ca. 7000 - ca. 1700 BCE)
- China
- earthenware
- Chinese Art
- Record ID
- fsg_F1930.98
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye34dfa2894-2198-4439-8a73-ad3469c1cd89
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