Image: CMOC Treasures of Ancient China exhibit - black pottery goblet

Description: Black Pottery Goblet Shandong Longshan Culture Late Neolithic Period (ca. 2500 - 2000 B.C.) Excavated at Jiaoxian, Shandong Province, 1975 This goblet, made from a particularly thin material known as "eggshell pottery", was made in separate parts- stem and body were produced independantly and then fitted together. Wet firewood was added to the kiln during firing at a relatively low tempurature, resulting in carbon from the resulting smoke permeating the pottery and turning it black.
Title: CMOC Treasures of Ancient China exhibit - black pottery goblet
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