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White Pottery Gui Pitcher

AnonymousBC 4300-BC 2500

National Palace Museum

National Palace Museum
Taipei, Taiwan

White pottery was made using clay with a high concentration of aluminum oxide, after which it is fired. The potters in the Dawenkou Culture used clay to fashion vessels like this one for alcoholic beverages that suggest an abstract bird craning its neck as it cries out.

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  • Title: White Pottery Gui Pitcher
  • Creator: Anonymous
  • Date Created: BC 4300-BC 2500
  • Physical Dimensions: Height: 29.5 cm, body height: 21.6 cm, width at widest: 16.9 cm
  • Type: Ceramics
  • Rights: National Palace Museum
  • Dynasty: Dawenkou Culture, Neolithic period
National Palace Museum

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