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Late Dawenkou period (ca. 2800–2400 B.C.) <I>gui</I> featured shorter hollow legs attached to a round body, a handle joined high on the neck, and a piecrust band around the body. The <I>gui</I> 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 <I>gaolin</I> 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.</SPAN>","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"<font color=\"#7030a0\"><span lang=\"EN\">&nbsp;–2002&nbsp;Eskenazi Ltd., Oriental Art (London, UK), sold to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2002.</span></font><font color=\"#7030a0\"></font><font color=\"#7030a0\">\n</font><font color=\"#7030a0\">\n</font><font color=\"#7030a0\">\n</font>","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"In the Neolithic period, the many settled agricultural communities that flourished along river systems across China needed durable vessels in which they could store, cook, and serve food and drink. Neolithic craftspeople answered this need by producing a startling variety of technologically advanced pottery. The Dawenkou culture, named for the site where it was first discovered in Shandong province, is known for a remarkable type of thin-walled white ware. Ranging in color from white to yellow to pink, these ceramics contained high amounts of kaolin, the same clay mineral used to make porcelain, and they were fired to a temperature of about 900°C. Elaborately shaped pouring vessels of this type, which first appeared near the beginning of the third millennium BCE, were undoubtedly objects of high status, possibly designed for special ritual purposes not satisfied by more mundane daily ware.\n","remarks":"ASIA_15-T6-2_CLA  Day 1 Cataloguing  Group chat for y1979-94, 1998-304, 2005-97, 2002-128, and 2022-79"}],"media":[{"id":257515,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMANX24_240910_16610","isprimary":0,"rank":9,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM Photo"},{"id":257516,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMANX24_240910_16611","isprimary":1,"rank":1,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM Photo"},{"id":257517,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMANX24_240910_16612","isprimary":0,"rank":2,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not 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