Majiayao culture
Banshan-Type Jar with Painted Geometric Design
Yangshao, 2600
Physical Qualities
Earthenware with black and red decoration, 7 1/16 × 8 3/4 in. (18 × 22.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Julius Levy Memorial Fund
Object Number
1939.251
Coil-built earthenware jar with lip finished on a turn-table, painted in black and red pigments with geometric designs. The pot is distinguished by a well balanced design of a net pattern and diamonds in alternating panels, separated in the middle of each side by a vertical red band between two wider black bands. The painted decoration covers the upper two-thirds of the body, thereby accentuating the girth of the vessel while the red lines which divide the panels enhance its height. Decoration on the lower portion of the jar may have been unnecessary as other vessels associated with this culture have been found half-buried around graves.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1939; Parke-Bernet Galleries, Whitridge Collection, Sale #142, Nov. 16-18, 1939; William H. Whitridge, Baltimore; Ralph M. Chait, New York
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge (no date)
'The Whitridge Collection of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain,' The Baltimore Museum of Art, 6/1-10/15/1930, no. 636.
Collection installation, "Asia. Offering Options," Levy Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, October 5, 2023-
'The Whitridge Collection of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain,' The Baltimore Museum of Art, 6/1-10/15/1930, no. 636.
Collection installation, "Asia. Offering Options," Levy Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, October 5, 2023-
'The Whitridge Collection of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain,' Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art,1930, no. 636.
Whitridge Collection, NY: Parke-Bernet, 1939, no. 505.
Frances Klapthor, 'Chinese Ceramics,' Baltimore: BMA, 1993, no. 40, p. 52.