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LOT 1957
Chinese Neolithic Painted Miniature Jar
YANGSHAO CULTURE, CIRCA 4TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.P.
6 in. (316 grams, 15.2 cm wide).
Squat in profile with lateral loop handles below the equator, broad shoulder, tubular neck with rounded rim; painted ornament including reserved vandykes to the neck, concentric rings, tongue-shaped hatched panels. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
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