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A Chinese Neolithic pottery jar, this is a ritual vessel type…
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A Chinese Neolithic pottery jar, this is a ritual vessel type found in both pottery and bronze forms, names 'Jia', it was used to cook at the beginning but hold libations of wine for the veneration of ancestors later in bronze period. It was made either with four legs or in the form of a tripod and included two pillar-like protrusions on the rim that were possibly used to suspend the vessel over heat. The earliest evidence of the Jia vessel type appears during the Neolithic period. It was a prominent form during the Shang and early Western Zhou Dynasties but had disappeared by the Mid-Western Zhou Dynasty, height 33 cm
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