PROPERTY FROM A COLORADO COLLECTIONA RARE NEOLITHIC PAINTED POTTERY BOAT-SHAPED VESSELYangshao culture, Banpo type, circa 5000-3000 BC Well-modeled in buff clay, painted in black on both sides a panel of cross-hatch 'fishnet' pattern framed by two rows of outstretching triangles, the concentric neck supporting a bulb mouth and rolled rim, a pair of lug handles on top of the shoulder, the flattened plump vessel with small flat base tapered up to pointed ends. 12 3/4in (32.5cm) width; 8in (20.5cm) high 新時期時代 仰韶文化半坡類型 黑彩袋形陶瓶 pare the very similar red pottery example excavated from Beishouling, Baoji city, Shaanxi province, now in the collection of the National Museum of China, illustrated by Yang (ed.) in The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology, Celebrated Discoveries from the People's Republic of China , Washington, 1999, pp. 58-59, no. 1.