Two-Handled Jar

ca. 2000 BC

28 cm 27.2 cm 24.4 cm

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This two-handled storage jar was a common form produced by the ancient Majiayao culture of northwestern China. The animal-like figure in the center of this jar may be an abstraction of natural creatures such as frogs; it may also symbolize either the costume worn by a shaman o...

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Mr. and Mrs. Eric Mayell, Carmel; Mathias Komor, New York; Walters Art Museum, 1958, by purchase.
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