Minneapolis Institute of Art

Basin

Majiayao artist

Date

c. 3000 BCE

Medium

Earthenware with painted designs and burnished surface

Culture

Majiayao culture

Department

Asian Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

The form of this thin-walled, hand-built basin follows a Banpo type shape of the Yangshao culture that was already in use nearly a thousand years before this vessel was made. The wide rounded bowl has a fairly small flat base and an everted rim with a broad, rounded rim flange. Typical of much Majiayao ware, it is made of yellowish-brown earthenware, extensively painted in overall concentric and spiral patterns. It is exquisitely burnished imparting a rich luster to its interior surface. Majiayao culture, China, Asia

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