A red pottery taper-end handled flask, Yangshao culture, Banpo phase, c. 4800-4300 BC 仰韶文化 半坡類型 紅陶尖底瓶

A red pottery taper-end handled flask,
Yangshao culture, Banpo phase, c. 4800-4300 BC
仰韶文化 半坡類型 紅陶尖底瓶

h. 32 cm

Condition Report:
The flask appears in overall good condition with expected scratches and denting to the surface (the largest approx. 2.2cm).
大致品相良好，表面見正常磨損已經擦傷（最大約2.2公分）

Catalogue Note:
See a Banpo rope-patterned amphora of this size, but slightly slimmer in proportion, in the British Museum, London, accession no. 1959,0216.4, illustrated in Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Pottery and Porcelain: From Prehistory to the Present, London, 1991, p. 12, fig. 1.