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Funerary Urn

Place of OriginChina, Banshan Phase of the Yangshao Culture
Date2655-2300 BCE
DimensionsH: 15 in. (38.1 cm); W: 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm); Depth: 13 in. (33 cm)
MediumEarthenware with painted pattern.
ClassificationCeramics
Credit LineGift of the Popplestone Family
Object number
2006.129
Not on View
Comparative ReferencesSee also Sullivan, Michael, The Arts of China, University of California: Berkeley, CA, 1999. See also [Ex. Cat.] Heavenly Earth, Early Chinese Ceramics from the Shatzman Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University: Ithica, NY, Curated by Ellen Avril, June 5 - August 22, 2004. See also Lee, Sherman, History of Far Eastern Art, Prentice Hall Inc.: Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1982.
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