Majiayao Painted Pottery (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yi-Xian LIN. Ian Freestone. Hui WANG.

This paper examines the evidence for local production of painted pottery of the Majiayao Culture in Gansu province based on their distinguishing characteristics in mineralogical, compositional and technological aspects, and on correlations of these features with the geographical source. An empirical observation of a contemporary family-scale workshop in Lintao County, where the most splendid pieces of Majiayao painted pottery have been found, suggests that the technological difficulties in the...