Question: Able to be seen as modern-day vanitas paintings are Hyman Bloom's still life paintings featuring 19th-century containers of a characteristic shape and size descending from at least as early as what period?
Context: Vanitas is a category of symbolic works of art, especially those associated with the still life paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries in Flanders and the Netherlands.  The Latin noun "vānĭtās" (gen. "-ātis") means "emptiness", from the Latin adjective "vanus", meaning empty, and thus refers in this context to the traditional Christian view of earthly life and the worthless nature of all earthly goods and pursuits.  In Christian philosophy, the word "vanitas" derives its prominence from the Ecclesiastes, and in the Vulgate the verse is rendered as "Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas".  In the King James Version, however, it is translated , and therefore the English word "vanity" is used in its older (especially pre-14th century) sense of "futility". Marion Lerner-Levine (b. Marion Lerner, 1931, in Hackney, London, England) is British-born American a painter, printmaker, and teacher who creates "emotionally expressive" still life paintings in oil and watercolor, which "transform the traditional form of the still life into whimsical portraits of everyday life." Neil Faulkner (born 1962) is a British realist painter.  He lives and works in the United Kingdom, and exhibits his paintings at many galleries throughout the UK and Ireland.The majority of Faulkner's paintings are watercolours, although he also produces oil paintings.  His watercolours fall into the categories figurative and still life.  He is best known for his rustic still life paintings. Hyman Bloom (August 18, 1913 – August 26, 2009) was a Latvian-born American painter.  His work was influenced by his Jewish heritage and Eastern religions as well as by artists including Altdorfer, Grünewald, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Blake, Bresdin, Ensor and Soutine.  Many of his works feature macabre subjects such as corpses and autopsy scenes based on his visits to a morgue as well as influences including Rembrandt's "Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp" (1632) and Chaim Soutine's "Carcass of Beef" (1925), and have modern-day comparisons to Damien Hirst's dissected animal sculptures.  Bloom's still life paintings featuring 19th-century Amphora pottery can be seen as modern-day vanitas paintings.  His drawings and paintings of the Lubec, Maine woods and his underwater seascapes explore the relationship between the natural and spiritual realms. Daisy Linda Ward, née Travers (1883 – 1937) was a still life painter from New Jersey, best known for her collection of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings that was bequeathed by her husband in her name to the Ashmolean Museum. Nicola Malinconico (1663–1721) was a Neapolitan painter of the late-Baroque.  He is described as a follower of Luca Giordano, and painted mostly religious canvases.  He painted the chapel altarpieces for the church of St Michele Arcangelo in Anacapri.  He also painted still life paintings recalling work by Pietro Paolo Bonzi and Paolo Porpora and influenced by the Flemish still life painter David de Coninck. Jan Roos (1591 in Antwerp – 1638 in Genoa), was a Flemish artist who, after training in Anwerp, mainly worked in Italy where he was called Giovanni Rosa.  He was known for his still life paintings of flowers and vegetables, mythological and religious scenes and portraits.  His style of still life painting had an important influence on the art of the local painters of the Genoese school. An amphora (Greek: Αμφορέας, English plural: amphorae or amphoras) is a type of container of a characteristic shape and size, descending from at least as early as the Neolithic Period.  Amphorae were used in vast numbers for the transport and storage of various products, both liquid and dry, but mostly for wine.  They are most often ceramic, but examples in metals and other materials have been found.  Versions of the amphorae were one of many shapes used in Ancient Greek vase painting. Still life paintings by Vincent van Gogh (Paris) is the subject of many drawings, sketches and paintings by Vincent van Gogh in 1886 and 1887 after he moved to Montmartre in Paris from the Netherlands.  While in Paris, Van Gogh transformed the subjects, color and techniques that he used in creating still life paintings. Jacob Campo Weyerman (9 August 1677 - 9 March 1747) was an eccentric painter and writer during the period known as the Dutch Enlightenment.  His work encompassed flower and fruit still life paintings, satirical magazines, plays, and biographies of painters.  He usually signed his paintings Campovivo.
Answer: Neolithic Period