An extremely rare Neolithic period Yangshao Culture Banpo type painted boat jar. Of boat form with a chimney-like structure and an opening at centre, two loops, two small openings on both ends, body painted with fish net pattern in black. Only one other recorded similar Yangshao unburnished boat jar is in a museum in Shaanxi now. An extremely rare and precious artifact. It comes from the world's most important Neolithic pottery collections formed by a highly discerning connoisseur and succes ...click for details
A very fine and rare Neolithic period Majiayao Culture painted amphora. Of fine and nice carrot form, painted all over with geometric swirls and circular patterns, applied with two superbly sculpted gear-form side loops, surface burnished smooth. It is probably the prototype of all vegetable form vessels produced in subsequent eras in China. It comes from the world's most important collection of Neolithic pottery which was formed in the 1960's in Hong Kong and Japan and will soon be expo ...click for details
An extremely rare Neolithic period large painted basin. Finely painted with geometric patterns with roundels in black all over the inside of the basin, the central roundel with anthropomorphic mask design, further painted with a band of geometric patterns in black on the outside, flat mouthrim, two appliqué handles on both sides, burnished all over except the plain and undecorated flat base. Only a few similar examples are recorded worldwide. Most are in public museums. It comes from the world&# ...click for details
The samples taken from this vessel for the authentication tests of Oxford Authentication Ltd are numbered C106s27. Date of production shown by the test results: Neolithic period (ca. 3000 BC - 2000 BC); Culture: Longshan Culture; Condition: ridiculously perfect, even the tips are intact (The tripod vessels at the V & A, Musee Guimet and Hong Kong Museum of Art were all smashed and restored. They should have bought this to replace the ones on display!!) When you scratch it all over its surfac ...click for details
