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Painted pottery hu jar This magnificent globular jar swells outward from
a narrow ring foot of approximately the same diam-
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Height 40.5 (15 A) eter as the taller, slightly flaring neck. The vessel
Early Bronze Age, Lower Xiajiadian Culture is surmounted by a high dome-shaped cover with
(c. 2000-1500 BCE) a finial rising above.
From Dadianzi, Aohanqi, Inner Mongolia
In contrast to the previous li vessel, which
The Institute of Archaeology, CASS, Beijing comes from the same burial at Dadianzi (cat. 41),
the designs on the present vessel are painted in
a chalky white pigment outlined by fine black lines
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