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measurements note
9 1/4 in., 23.5 cm.

the compressed globular vessel standing on three pointed mammiform legs encircled by a notched band around the widest section, surmounted by a funnel neck with wide everted rim, pinched on one side forming an angled spout, opposite a grooved tubular handle flattening out where it meets the body, the orange-red clay with some earth encrustation

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See several pottery tripods (gui) discovered at many Dawenkou sites in Shandong province of the late 4th to early 3rd millennium B.C., for example, at the Dawenkou type site in Taian, included in the exhibition 7000 Years of Chinese Civilization, Venice, 1983, cat.no. 18, a piece now in the Museum of Chinese History, Beijing; at Sanlihe in Jiao county, illustrated in Jiaoxian Sanlihe, Beijing, 1988, pls. 25, 26 and 51; at Yedian in Zou county, included in Zouxian Yedian, Beijing, 1985, pl. 54; and at Xixiahou, Qufu county, published in Kaogu jinghua, Beijing, 1993, pl. 47.

A white pottery ewer of this type from the Dawenkou culture was sold in these rooms, 19th September 2002, lot 16; and another was sold at Christie's New York, 3rd June 1993, lot 152.