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 small red pottery human head bottle, Yangshao culture, Banpo to Miaodigou phase, 4800-3500 B.C. 仰韶文化 半坡至廟底溝類型 紅陶人首瓶
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Property from the Ronald W. Longsdorf Collection
A small red pottery human head bottle,
Yangshao culture, Banpo to Miaodigou phase, 4800-3500 B.C.
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仰韶文化 半坡至廟底溝類型 紅陶人首瓶
h. 20.7 cm
The dating of this lot is consistent with the results of Oxford Authentication Ltd, thermoluminescence test C104q93/64.
此拍品經熱釋光測定，結果與斷代吻合（牛津大學，測試編號：C104q93/64）
Ronald W. Longsdorf, The Pottery Age: An Appreciation of Neolithic Ceramics from China, Circa 7000 BC - Circa 1000 BC, Hong Kong, 2020, pl. 3.
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3
The rounded bulb top of the vessel is depicted with a youthful upturned face highlighted with delicate facial features framed by vertical grooves representing straight hair. See a similar but larger example (32.3 cm) from the Miaodigou phase of the Yangshao culture, illustrated in E Jun E, ed., Masterpieces from the Gansu Provincial Museum, Xi'an, 2006, p. 55.
For pottery bottles with an undecorated bulb top that may have prompted the potter to create vessels surmounted by a humanoid head, see one from the Miaodigou phase of the Yangshao culture, published in Cheng Zheng and Qian Zhiqiang, Painted Pottery of the Yellow River, Taipei, 1994, no. 112.
本瓶瓶頂圓鼓，代表人首，人首樣貌年輕，面部上仰，縱刻劉海，直髮下垂。參考一體型較大之近例，高32.3公分，屬仰韶文化廟底溝類型，載於俄軍主編，《甘肅省博物館文物精品圖集》，西安，2006年，頁55。
素面瓶首陶瓶可能啟發了陶工創作立體人首陶瓶，比較一例，同屬仰韶文化廟底溝類型，載於程征及錢志強，《黃河彩陶》，台北，1994年，編號112。