3rd millennium BC. A good size terracotta jar with broad domed shoulder and tapering body, flared rim and loop handles below the equator, painted bands of decoration to the shoulder and lattice to the body. See Lili, F. Chinese Ceramics, Cambridge, 2010. 2.5 kg, 31cm (12 1/4"). From the property of a London gentleman; formerly in a UK collection, acquired in the 1990s. Fine condition.