Banshan type jar
date: label: Date
content: 5000-2000 BCE
label: Period
content: Neolithic period
notes: label: Description
content: Vase: wide-bellied with cylindrical neck and straight lip. Two flat vertical ears at lip and two flat loop handles at widest point of body. Body: soft fine-grained buff colored clay, potted thin. Decoration: neck 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 Art (January 1, 1963 to March 6, 1981)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Ceramics (March 7, 1957 to January 1, 1963)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Ceramics, 1955 (September 19, 1955 to November 10, 1955)
label: Exhibition History
content: Centennial Exhibition, Gallery 13 (November 10, 1955 to March 1, 1957)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Metalwork, Pottery, and Painting (March 23, 1944 to May 2, 1946)
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
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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: F1930.97
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Earthenware with iron pigments
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 25.8 x 29.1 cm (10 3/16 x 11 7/16 in)
label: Style
content: Gansu ware