A pair of red pottery bowl, Yangshou culture, Neolithic period, two very large red pottery Neolithic bowls, Banpo-type, Yangshou culture, 5th millennium BCE, 28.5 cm diameter, 29.2 cm diameter, each with a burnished surface, 28.5 x 15 high cm 29.2 x 14 high cm. Provenance: The Walter Hochstadter Collection, similar example: see 'Transitory and Timeless: ancient Chinese pottery', the Chinese porcelain Co, Ny 2002, cat no 1.