A RARE PAINTED RED-POTTERY HUMAN-HEADED' TWO-HANDLED JARNeolithic Period, Gansu, Majiayao Culture, Machang Phase, late 3rd Millenium B.C.E
The robust globular body painted with double-gourd reserves of alternate checkerboard and fishnet sections separated by three vertical bands of waves all above a scalloped edge border, the body tapering inward to a cylindrical neck modeled in relief with a human head, the eyes and nose highlighted in black pigment and framed by a fishnet band set off by small, pierced brackets at the rim.
12 1/4in (31.2cm) highFootnotes新石器時期 甘肅馬家窯文化 馬廠類型 紅陶彩繪人首雙耳罐
Provenance:
Joseph Rondina, November 12, 1990
來源：
Joseph Rondina藏，1990年11月12日
Neolithic jars produced with human heads as spouts or as embellishments provide a rare picture of man during this early stage of history. See a painted pottery human-head jar from the Ronald Longsdorf Collection, sold Sotheby's Hong Kong, May 24, 2023, lot 809, and a massive Neolithic pottery jar with applied reserves of human faces from an American Private Collection, sold in these rooms, March 22, 2023, lot 809.
See also Bradley Smith & Wan-go Weng, China, A History in Art, New York, 1972, pp.18-19, for two Neolithic jar covers with human heads and mask-like faces.
A RARE PAINTED RED-POTTERY HUMAN-HEADED' TWO-HANDLED JARNeolithic Period, Gansu, Majiayao Culture, Machang Phase, late 3rd Millenium B.C.E
The robust globular body painted with double-gourd reserves of alternate checkerboard and fishnet sections separated by three vertical bands of waves all above a scalloped edge border, the body tapering inward to a cylindrical neck modeled in relief with a human head, the eyes and nose highlighted in black pigment and framed by a fishnet band set off by small, pierced brackets at the rim.
12 1/4in (31.2cm) highFootnotes新石器時期 甘肅馬家窯文化 馬廠類型 紅陶彩繪人首雙耳罐
Provenance:
Joseph Rondina, November 12, 1990
來源：
Joseph Rondina藏，1990年11月12日
Neolithic jars produced with human heads as spouts or as embellishments provide a rare picture of man during this early stage of history. See a painted pottery human-head jar from the Ronald Longsdorf Collection, sold Sotheby's Hong Kong, May 24, 2023, lot 809, and a massive Neolithic pottery jar with applied reserves of human faces from an American Private Collection, sold in these rooms, March 22, 2023, lot 809.
See also Bradley Smith & Wan-go Weng, China, A History in Art, New York, 1972, pp.18-19, for two Neolithic jar covers with human heads and mask-like faces.
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