Chinese Art: Yangshao Culture Neolithic Pottery Owl's Head - Modern Reproduction

  This reproduction was made for the Cultural Relics Bureau (now the Cultural Heritage Administration); it was acquired at a scholarly conference in Xi'an in the 1980s.

  This owl's head is a reproduction of an excavated artifact from a Yangshao 仰绍 Culture site near Xi'an. The artifact would date ca. 5000-4000 BCE. The best-known site in this region is Banpo 半坡, and the site museum there also sold such reproductions. The original would have been low-fired red pottery modeled by hand. This repro was probably made using a mold.

  Dimensions: diameter 5 inches (13 cm), height about 2.5 inches (6-7 cm). Thickness about 1/4 inch (0.5 cm). The padded box with "brocade" and metal clasp is 6.5 x 6.5 x 3.5 inches (16 x 16 x 9 cm).

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