Chinese Neolithic Painted Pottery Jar, Majiayao Culture. The tall neck flanked by a pair of knob handles, the ovoid body set with two loop handles and painted with six checkered roundels in red pigment below a band of triangular design in black slip. On a carved wood base. Majiayao culture, 3rd millennium BC. Provenance: Property from the Richard I. Stone Estate. Condition: Overall surface wear, chips to the mouth, neck, and loop handles.