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Tall-stemmed Egg Shell Black Pottery Cup (蛋殼陶高足杯 )

Resource Identifier:
R017958

Description:
This is one of the few well-preserved examples of egg shell pottery. The cup and foot were made separately. The incised lines appear on the lower section of the cup. The tall-stem foot includes fourteen bamboo joints, eleven of which are marked by small triangular holes.

Date:
2600-2000B.C.

Format:
Height 19.8, diameter of mouth 10.7, diameter of foot 5.5 cm

Coverage:
Tomb M4, Wa-wu-ts’un, Liang-ch’eng-chen,Jih-chao, Shantung

 

 

Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica

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