Jar with Curvilinear Designs
2650–2350 BC
Maker Unknown
Chinese Art
Jar with Curvilinear Designs, 2650–2350 BC. Northwest China, Neolithic period, Majiayao culture, Banshan phase (2650-2350 BC). Earthenware with slip-painted decoration; diameter: 36.8 x 30.5 cm (14 1/2 x 12 in.); overall: 36.2 cm (14 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1930.332
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Formatted Medium
- earthenware with slip-painted decoration
- Medium
- earthenware, slip-painted, decoration
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 36.8 x 30.5 cm (14 1/2 x 12 in.); Overall: 36.2 cm (14 1/4 in.)
- Departments
- Chinese Art
- Accession Number
- 1930.332
- Credit Line
- Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund
- Exhibitions
- The Silver Jubilee Exhibition, Juxtapositions, The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art", no. 2, p. 115, color repr. p. 85.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 241A Arts of Ancient China
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