Banshan type jar
date: label: Date
content: 5000-2000 BCE
label: Period
content: Neolithic period
notes: label: Description
content: Vase: spheroid shape with short neck and flaring lip. Two flat vertical ears at lip and two flat loop handles just below widest point of body. Body: soft, fine-grained, buff-colored clay. Potted thin. Decoration: neck, inside of lip and upper part of body painted with symbolic patterns in black and chocolate brown.
label: Provenance
content: To 1930
label: Provenance
content: George Findlay Andrew (1887-1971) Gansu, China to 1930 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1930
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from George Findlay Andrew, Gansu, China, through Carl W. Bishop in 1930 [2]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] Object file, undated folder sheet note. See also account book for Freer Gallery of Art Expedition Fund, February 10, 1930 to June 30, 1932, second page of Gold Account.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: Chinese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to September 4, 1980)
label: Exhibition History
content: Chinese Art (January 1, 1963 to March 6, 1981)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Ceramics, 1955 (September 19, 1955 to November 10, 1955)
label: Exhibition History
content: Special Exhibition, Chinese Art, 1946 (August 7, 1946 to January 7, 1947)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: George Findlay Andrew (1887-1971)
place: label: Origin
content: China
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Gansu ware
label: Topic
content: Neolithic period (ca. 7000 - ca. 1700 BCE)
label: Topic
content: China
label: Topic
content: earthenware
label: Topic
content: Chinese Art
setName: label: Related Online Resources
content: Google Arts & Culture
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1930.96
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Earthenware with iron pigments
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam (overall): 36.1 x 42.3 cm (14 3/16 x 16 5/8 in)
label: Style
content: Gansu ware