My Favorite Earthenware Artifacts in Banpo Archaeological Site Museum, Xi'an, China

Banpo Archaeological Site Museum, Xi'an, China featured one of the earliest civilizations originated in China, in the Yellow River Valley, and it showcased many ancient artifacts remarkable not only for historical values, but the refined beauty belying their primitive and humble origins.

One such wonder was "A basin with abstracted fish design", whose rich earthy red tone was a thing of great beauty, and the black line drawing geometrical design of fish in multiple variations and arrangements was amazingly accomplished and startlingly modern.

A basin with abstracted fish design

Contrasting to the serious tone of the abstract fish pattern above, "A basin bearing the pattern of human face and fish" had a humorous conflation image of a human face and a pair of triangular fish, sticking out like exaggerated beards. A clown? A dragoon? Fascinating.

A basin bearing the pattern of human face and fish


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