Lot 182: A NEOLITHIC PAINTED POTTERY 'TWIN FISH' SHALLOW BOWL Majiayao culture

A NEOLITHIC PAINTED POTTERY 'TWIN FISH' SHALLOW BOWL

Majiayao culture

Freely painted in dark brown with a pair of fish at the center, encircling by four triangular 'fishnet' panels, the rolled rim decorated with the same design, the exterior decorated with wave-shaped lines and dots, the beige pottery burnished and slightly degraded.


9in (22.9cm) diam

新石器時代 馬家窯文化 黑彩雙魚紋陶缽



Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價




Provenance:

Galaxie Art & Gift Company, Hong Kong, 2 June 1988

Collection of Florence (1920-2018) and Herbert (1917-2016) Irving, no. 799

Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015-present




來源：

香港 Galaxie Art & Gift Company 古董行，1988 年 6 月 2 日

佛羅倫斯 (1920-2018) 及赫伯特·歐雲 (1917-2016) 伉儷（Florence and Herbert Irving）舊藏，藏品編號 799

歐雲伉儷贈，2015 年

大都會藝術博物館，2015 年迄今



Compare with a related painted pottery basin (21.5cm diam), Neolithic period, Majiayao culture, which was on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1986-2023), illustrated by S. Valenstein,
A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, p.6, no.4, and later sold at Christie's New York, 22 September 2023, lot 1043.

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