Ancient Civilisations II – Neolithic Pottery including the Collection of Ronald W. Longsdorf
Ancient Civilisations II – Neolithic Pottery including the Collection of Ronald W. Longsdorf
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A tall grey pottery waisted cup, Dawenkou culture, 4300-2400 B.C. 大汶口文化 灰陶盃
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November 25, 03:34 AM GMT
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20,000 - 30,000 HKD
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Property from the Ronald W. Longsdorf Collection
A tall grey pottery waisted cup,
Dawenkou culture, 4300-2400 B.C.
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大汶口文化 灰陶盃
with an incised mark below the handle
環耳下刻符號
h. 13.6 cm
Ronald W. Longsdorf, The Pottery Age: An Appreciation of Neolithic Ceramics from China, Circa 7000 BC - Circa 1000 BC, Hong Kong, 2020, pl. 53.
Ronald W. Longsdorf, 《陶誌：中國新石器時代陶器 約西元前7000年 – 前1000年》，香港，2020年，圖版53
Potted with a waisted body and flaring at the rim, the current cup exudes a sense of elegance in its seemingly simple form. It is incised with a mark below the handle, which sets this cup apart from its comparable examples as such marks are very rare and believed to be clan or individual marks.
See also a similar but smaller cup (h. 10.7 cm), also from the collection of Ronald W. Longsdorf, but lacking an incised mark, illustrated in Ronald W. Longsdorf, The Pottery Age: An Appreciation of Neolithic Ceramics from China, Circa 7000 BC - Circa 1000 BC, Hong Kong, 2020, pl. 54.