Very Large Chinese Neolithic 'Leather Look' Amphora

3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.

22 3/4 in. (12.6 kg, 58 cm).

With piriform body and trumpet-shaped mouth, two loop handles to the equator; hatching to the shoulder and ring of pricking below the neck. [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.

Literature

Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession number 2015.500.7.9, for similar profile with more decoration.

CONDITION

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LOT 2060