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Lung-Shan Stemmed Cups
Lung-Shan Ceremonial Stemmed Cups. Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

Lung-Shan Ceremonial Stemmed Cups (2500-2000 B.C.) Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

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The Lung-Shan culture of Neolithic China is known for its burnished black pottery, some of it eggshell thin, as distinct from painted pottery. The Lung-Shan (Longshan) culture was on the central and lower Yellow River on the plains in eastern China.

Such earthenware cups were made on a potter's wheel and kiln-fired to the black hue. These cups are from the second half of the third millennium B.C. and can be seen at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

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

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