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Huo Pavilion
Gui 鬹 (vessel),
ca. 2800–2400 BCE
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Dawenkou archaeological culture developed along the lower Yellow River region in the area of present-day Shandong province. Thin-walled "white ware" ceramics emerged during the Middle Dawenkou period (ca. 3500–2800 B.C.), with the <em>gui</em> pouring-vessel type appearing a few centuries before 3000 B.C. Early <em>gui</em> vessels had solid legs and a handle connected to the base of the neck. Late Dawenkou period (ca. 2800–2400 B.C.) <em>gui</em> featured shorter hollow legs attached to a round body, a handle joined high on the neck, and a piecrust band around the body. The <em>gui</em> vessel continued to evolve during the Shandong Longshan culture (ca. 2400–2000 B.C.). When fired at kiln temperatures of about 900°C (1652°F), the high <em>gaolin</em> clay content in white ware produces a fine-grained, light-colored pottery ranging in tone from white to yellow and pink. White-ware vessels seem to have been reserved mainly for ritual purposes rather than used in an everyday context.
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ca. 2800–2400 BCE
Asia, China
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2002," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 62 (2003): p. 107-161., p. 125, illustrated
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 265 (illus.)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 317
