Ovoid Jar with Two Loop Handles and Short, Flaring Neck, and with Geometric Decor, Neolithic period, Majiayao cutlure, Banshan phase (2650 BCE - 2350 BCE). Buff earthenware with decoration painted in black and burgundy slips. Upper Yellow River Valley area; Gansu, Qinghai, or Ningxia province. H. 25 x Diam. 16.5 cm. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Mrs. George A.L. Sarton (1931.15) Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College