Ancient Civilisations III – Neolithic Pottery including the Collection of Ronald W. Longsdorf
Ancient Civilisations III – Neolithic Pottery including the Collection of Ronald W. Longsdorf
A red pottery plain boat-form flask with pricked designs, Yangshao culture, Banpo phase, c. 4800-4300 BC 仰韶文化 半坡類型 紅陶錐刺紋船形壺
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A red pottery plain boat-form flask with pricked designs,
Yangshao culture, Banpo phase, c. 4800-4300 BC
仰韶文化 半坡類型 紅陶錐刺紋船形壺
The dating of this lot is consistent with the results of Oxford Authentication Ltd, thermoluminescence test C104e76.
此拍品經熱釋光測定，結果與斷代吻合（牛津大學，測試編號：C104e76）。
l. 32.5 cm
Yangshao culture, which flourished in northern and central China, is arguably the best-known civilisation among Chinese Neolithic cultures, and Banpo (near present-day Xi'an, Shaanxi) is probably the most well-preserved archaeological site in the culture.
This boat-shaped flask, carefully decorated with 'pricking' or 'notching' on both sides of the exterior, is an outstanding example of Banpo pottery. The pricked design would have required the potter's superb attention to detail and most skilled execution. While other 'pricked' examples from the Yangshao culture are known, there are comparatively fewer 'pricked' pottery vessels than painted or other undecorated monochrome vessels of the same period.
Compare a Banpo boat-form painted vessel excavated from Baoji, Shaanxi, illustrated in Sekai tōji zenshū [Ceramic Art of the World], vol. 10, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 3. See also a Banpo red pottery plain boat-form flask, but without handles, sold in these rooms, 25th November 2022, lot 817.
在新石器時代中，覆蓋北部及中原地區的仰韶文化尤為稱著，其中又以半坡類型（鄰近今陝西省西安市）遺存最豐，展現古代生活之貎。
此紅陶雙耳船形壺，兩面以錐刺為飾，看似簡單，卻是有賴陶匠細心巧技方可成之，實不多見，較素身或彩繪者罕稀。
參考陝西寶雞出土半坡類型彩陶船形雙耳壺，收入《世界陶磁全集》，卷10：中國古代，東京，1982年，圖版3。香港蘇富比2022年11月25日也曾拍出一半坡類型紅陶素面船形壺，無耳，編號817。
This boat-shaped flask, carefully decorated with 'pricking' or 'notching' on both sides of the exterior, is an outstanding example of Banpo pottery. The pricked design would have required the potter's superb attention to detail and most skilled execution. While other 'pricked' examples from the Yangshao culture are known, there are comparatively fewer 'pricked' pottery vessels than painted or other undecorated monochrome vessels of the same period.
Compare a Banpo boat-form painted vessel excavated from Baoji, Shaanxi, illustrated in Sekai tōji zenshū [Ceramic Art of the World], vol. 10, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 3. See also a Banpo red pottery plain boat-form flask, but without handles, sold in these rooms, 25th November 2022, lot 817.
在新石器時代中，覆蓋北部及中原地區的仰韶文化尤為稱著，其中又以半坡類型（鄰近今陝西省西安市）遺存最豐，展現古代生活之貎。
此紅陶雙耳船形壺，兩面以錐刺為飾，看似簡單，卻是有賴陶匠細心巧技方可成之，實不多見，較素身或彩繪者罕稀。
參考陝西寶雞出土半坡類型彩陶船形雙耳壺，收入《世界陶磁全集》，卷10：中國古代，東京，1982年，圖版3。香港蘇富比2022年11月25日也曾拍出一半坡類型紅陶素面船形壺，無耳，編號817。