Ancient Chinese Pottery and Ceramics

By N.S. Gill, About.com Guide

Ma-Jia-Yao was an ancient neolithic Chinese culture of the upper Yellow River region in modern Gansu and Qinghai. Ma-Jia-Yao style usually uses black linear designs that are curving rather than geometric.

This earthenware storage vessel has a painted design on a burnished surface. The jar has different handles, one ornamented and one plain.

Ma-Jia-Yao Storage Vessel (3100-2700 B.C.). 14 3/16 x 12 13/16 x 11 13/16 in. (36.04 x 32.54 x 30 cm) MIA.

For more information on the items of Chinese Pottery from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, see Guide to Chinese Ceramics - The Art of Asia

For the connection between art and philosophy, see:
"An Exploration of the Mode of Thinking of Ancient China," by Liu Jingshan; Philosophy East and West Vol. 35, No. 4 (Oct., 1985), pp. 387-397.

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• Neolithic Period Pottery
• Ma-Jia-Yao Storage Vessel
• Lung-Shan Stemmed Cups
• Warring States Storage Jar
• Yueh Ware
• Han Figure of a Squatting Drummer
• Tang White Ware
• Tang Dynasty Tomb Figure

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