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Asian Art
Li Tripod with turned-in rim
3rd millennium B.C.
Earthenware with impressed decoration
3 3/4 × 5 1/16 in. (9.5 × 12.8 cm)
Diameter of Body: 4 5/16 in. (11 cm)
Diameter of Body: 4 5/16 in. (11 cm)
Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Class of 1913, Fund
1999.35.2
Geography:
China
Culture:
Chinese
Period:
Neolithic, Shannxi Longshan / Kexingzhuang II culture
Classification:
Containers - Ceramics
Provenance:
Walter Hochstadter, (dealer, 1914–2007), New York, Adelaide, Australia; sold to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1999
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