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Basin with star and cloud patterns
Chinese; Majiayao culture
Neolithic period
early 3rd millennium B.C.
Medium/Technique
Buff earthenware painted in black; Majiayao type
Dimensions
9.5 x 27.2 cm (3 3/4 x 10 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Charles Bain Hoyt Fund
Accession Number1985.2
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsCeramics – Pottery – Earthenware
Catalogue Raisonné
Wu Tung, Earth Transformed: Chinese ceramics in the MFA, 2001, p. 2
ProvenancePurchased at auction (Christie's November 29th, and 30th, 1984, lot #10) for the MFA by Nicholas Grindley Inc. New York, NY.