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A light reddish-buff earthenware <em>guan (</em>罐) jar, with a wide globular upper body and conical lower body on a flat base, and a tall narrow neck with an everted rim. There are two diametrically opposed lug handles at the waist. The upper half of the body is painted with black pigment to depict four, six squared spirals made up of lines containing small circles, divided by thick vertical lines, confined between solid band borders with a lobed line border below. Around the shoulder, contained by two solid black lines, is a band of black squares divided by a central black vertical line, alternating in their position to touch the top or bottom solid black lines containing them.   Surrounding the neck are four bold vertical lines made up of wide and densly spaced zigzags. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Jar
2300 BCE – 2000 BCE
Gift of Domino's Pizza, Inc.
1993/1.49
A light reddish-buff earthenware <em>guan (</em>罐) jar with wide globular upper body and conical lower body on a narrow flat base, and a tall narrow neck with flaring rim. There are two diametrically opposed lug handles, one at the waist and the other joining the neck to the shoulder. The upper half of the body is painted with black and red pigments to depict alternating sets of three thin black bands, and thick red and black bands. Below these bands is a wide black, fringed zigzag band and a lobed black band. Thin black bands around the neck, with a red band and black hatchmark band to the interior rim. There is loss and restoration to the rim.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Jar
2300 BCE – 2000 BCE
Gift of Domino's Pizza, Inc.
1993/1.51
A light reddish-buff earthenware <em>guan </em>罐 jar with a wide globular upper body and conical lower body on a flat base, and a short narrow neck with an everted, direct rim. There are two diametrically opposed lug handles connecting the rim to shoulder. The upper three-fourths of the body is painted with black pigment to depict six counter-clockwise sauvasticas (swastikas), or equal armed crosses, with each arm continued at a right angle into a squared coil. Each sauvastica is made up of a network of fine lines, with a shoulder band made up of five on one side and six on the other. Groupings of six or seven stacked horizontal lines, vertical wavy lines, and zigzags are around the interior and exterior of the neck. All patterns are separated and confined between solid band borders.  
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Jar
2300 BCE – 2000 BCE
Gift of Domino's Pizza, Inc.
1993/1.69
This light reddish-buff earthenware <em>guan (</em>罐) jar has a wide globular upper body and a conical lower body on a narrow flat base with a narrow neck and flaring rim. There are two diametrically opposed lug handles at the waist. Painted on the upper half of the body with black pigment are a network of rhomboid shapes, hatch-marks and dots confined within solid band borders, with a lobed line border below.  Around the neck are a painted "X" design, hatch marks and a lobed border to the interior.  
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Jar
25600 BCE – 2300 BCE
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1989/2.103
A light reddish-buff earthenware <em>guan (</em>罐) jar with a wide globular upper body and conical lower body on a narrow flat base, and a tall wide neck with rim articulation. Two diametrically opposed lug handles at the waist and sawtooth-edge ears are applied to the rim. The upper half of the body is painted with black and red pigments to depict thick red bands alternating with sets of three thin black bands, contained within thick black saw-tooth edge borders. A zigzag line border within solid black bands are below. Around the neck is a red band defining the neck from the shoulder, above which is a thick black sawtooth edge band, and a network pattern contained within two solid black bands, one of which finishes the rim.  
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Jar
2600 BCE – 2300 BCE
Gift of Domino's Pizza, Inc.
1993/1.50
This light reddish-buff earthenware <em>guan (</em>罐) jar has a wide globular upper body and conical lower body on a narrow flat base with a tall narrow neck and flaring rim. There are two diametrically opposed lug handles at the waist. Painted on the upper half of the body with black and red pigments are four whirls containing a network pattern within larger diamond shapes, confined between solid band borders, with a lobed line border below. Around the neck is a cross-hatched network design, hatch marks and solid bands to the interior.  
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Jar
2600 BCE – 2300 BCE
Gift of Domino's Pizza, Inc.
1993/1.45
A light reddish-buff earthenware <em>guan </em>罐 jar with a wide globular upper body and conical lower body on a flat base, and a short narrow everted neck with direct rim. There are two diametrically opposed lug handles at the waist. The upper half of the body is painted with black and red pigments to depict four whirls of concentric circles, each containing one red circle, confined between solid band borders, with a garland border below. Around the neck is a thick chevron pattern, with a red band and black ladder pattern band to interior rim.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Jar
2300 BCE – 2000 BCE
Gift of Domino's Pizza, Inc.
1993/1.68
A light reddish-buff earthenware <em>guan </em>罐 jar with a wide globular upper body and conical lower body on a flat base, and a short narrow everted neck with direct rim. There are two diametrically opposed lug handles at the waist. The upper half of the body is painted with black and red pigments to depict four whirls of concentric circles, each containing a roundel of a checkerboard pattern created from vertical and horizontally striped squares alternating with squares containing a network pattern. The four circular motifs are confined between solid band borders, with a garland border below. Around the neck is a thick, wide zigzag pattern.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Jar
2300 BCE – 2000 BCE
Gift of Domino's Pizza, Inc.
1993/1.67
A light reddish-buff earthenware <em>guan (</em>罐) jar with a wide globular upper body and conical lower body on a narrow flat base, a tall wide neck and a flaring rim. Two diametrically opposed lug handles are located at the waist. The upper half of the body is painted with black pigment to depict four gourd-shaped areas containing a network pattern. The negative space between the gourd-shaped areas contains a checkerboard pattern confined between solid band borders, with a lobed line border below, and one final solid black band at the bottom of the design. Around the neck are bands of herring bone, sawtooth, and hatch mark patterns, and additional hatch marks and solid bands toward the interior.  
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Jar
2600 BCE – 2300 BCE
Gift of Domino's Pizza, Inc.
1993/1.46

Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Jar
2600 BCE – 2300 BCE
Gift of Domino's Pizza, Inc.
1993/1.65
A light reddish-buff earthenware <em>guan </em>罐 jar with a wide globular upper body and conical lower body on a flat base, and a tall narrow neck with everted rim. There are two diametrically opposed lug handles at the waist. The upper half of the body is painted with black and red pigments to depict four whirls of concentric circles, each containing a roundel made of joined circles with an "X" through the center surrounded by a network pattern. The four circular motifs are confined between solid band borders, with a garland border below. Around the neck are bold thick black chevrons.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Jar
2300 BCE – 2000 BCE
Gift of Domino's Pizza, Inc.
1993/1.66
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