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WORLD-STUNNING BANSHAN ANTHROPOMORPHIC JAR AND COVER browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Pottery: Pre AD 1000: item # 849622 Please refer to our stock # skc1 when inquiring.
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| This is the single most important Neolithic ceramic. A world-stunning extremely rare, important and fine Neolithic period Majiayao Culture (4000BC - 3000BC) Banshan type painted and burnished anthropomorphic red pottery jar and cover. The flattened globular body finely painted with alternating red and black swirls and a central net, the neck with two red and a black collars, the head with finely sculpted and burnished face, floral-shaped ears, nose, pierced small eyes, lips, mouth and goatee, painted eyebrows and make-ups, surface all burnished smooth. The top of the head has two protruding structures that look like hair buns or actually horns and antennae since they are hollow structures which connect to the inside of the head. It probably reflects the dress-up and make-up styles of a Neolithic tribe or an imaginative creature since some features do not resemble those of human beings. Could it be Extraterrestrial lives (ET)? Although there are controversies, many ancient artifacts recently discovered have ET motifs. The exact iconographies of these motifs are still unknown. However, it is known that its craftsmanship is acme among Neolithic ceramics. It has intriguing shape, sophisticated painted and applique decorations. The saw-tooth gap between the cover and the jar was perfectly cut. The surface was superbly burnished. It was probably the earliest fine art that the Chinese made to symbolize their values, beliefs, philosophy, religion, power and status. It is a product of the earliest human civilisation and provides rare insights and information about the earliest human civilisation. It has enormous artistic, historical and cultural significances. It comes from the world’s most important Neolithic collection formed by a highly discerning connoisseur and successful businessman in Hong Kong and Japan, SK through a few decades. There are 12 similar jars and covers with appliqué sculpted anthropomorphic designs in this collection. A larger but unburnished one will be kept in the family collection indefinitely. There are a wide range of sizes of them. The smallest one is about 1/8 the size of the largest one. According to an archaeologist in Gansu, China, this type of anthropomorphic jars and covers belong to Majiayao Culture Banshan type. The cover was formed by cutting a saw-tooth gap in the jar with a knife-like hard tool before firing. Carbonized food remains were found along with the shards of these jars and therefore they were probably food jars or ritual vessels for holding food. He also said that this type of jars and covers in intact or good conditions are extremely rare and these 12 are probably the only extant ones in good conditions in the world. All recently excavated ones are shards. No similar jars and covers are recorded anywhere around the world. The important SK Neolithic ceramics collection will soon be exposed in a series of unprecedented exhibition world tours with the culmination of an auction sale which would probably stun the world. East Asian Antiques is extremely honoured to become the agent for this extremely precious collection. Pre-exhibition and pre-auction purchases are welcome through us at the moment. Date: Neolithic period, Majiayao Culture (4000BC - 3000BC); Height: 25cm; Condition: excellent but with one minor chip to cover. A stunning original artifact in its original conditions. Oxford TL test can be arranged on request for $450. Oxford Authentication sub-contracted 3D X-ray analysis can be arranged on request. Guaranteed genuine and all parts original, not reassembled. | |||||||||||||||
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