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Painted pottery hu jar
Height 40.5 (15 3 A)
Early Bronze Age, Lower Xiajiadian Culture
(c. 2000-1500 BCE)
From Dadianzi, Aohanqi, Inner Mongolia
The Institute of Archaeology, CASS, Beijing
This magnificent globular jar 1 swells outward from
a narrow ring foot of approximately the same diameter
as the taller, slightly flaring neck. The vessel
is surmounted by a high dome-shaped cover with
a finial rising above.
In contrast to the previous li vessel, which
comes from the same burial at Dadianzi (cat. 41),
the designs on the present vessel are painted in
a chalky white pigment outlined by fine black lines
157 | TOMBS OF THE LOWER XIAJIADIAN CULTURE