This type of pottery , sometimes referred to as saddle-shaped, it’s the most distinctive hallmark relating to the Siwa culture, which was a nomadic Bronze Age civilisation revolving around the modern-day Gansu Province, in northwest China, along the Tao river, a tributary of the Yellow river. The culture takes the name from the Siwa mountain, where the Sweden archeologist Johan Andersson first identified it in 1924. This jar is a very fine example witnessing the great skills of Chinese artisans at an early period.
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