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250 Although no other Neolithic pottery model of a foot seems to have
A rare painted pottery tankard formed as a been published, two boots attributed respectively to the Xibor Culture
humanoid foot and Qijia Culture have been illustrated by Simon Kwan, Chinese
Neolithic Period, Gansu Province Neolithic Pottery, Muwen Tang Fine Arts Publication, 2005, nos. 128
The vessel with a short strap handle on one side, decorated with and 93. A more carefully finished pottery boot is also illustrated, op.cit.,
groups of three lines to the foot and horizontal bands on the ankle, fig.28, p.37 where a Beixin Culture origin is suggested as the vessel
the base exposing the pale reddish-brown ware. was unearthed at Liewan, Ledu, Qinghai Province; the culture is much
14.7cm high earlier, dating to circa 5400-4100BC.
HK$200,000 - 300,000 陶罐仿人體足部製作而成，胎呈暗紅色。頸部近似筒狀，並在口沿下
US$26,000 - 39,000
作一把手，並繪黑色漁網紋，下承接弦紋十周。下部為腳部展開，繪
新石器時代 彩繪足形陶罐 甘肅地區
黑色繩紋。紋飾簡潔明快，樸素大方，有很強的裝飾性。此類陶器的
裝飾風格是馬家窯文化中馬家窯類型彩陶的常見紋飾。
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