Black Pottery Amphora

Western Han Dynasty
Sichuan Provincial Museum, Chengdu

This type of double-handled amphora was made in Western Sichuan during the 3d-2d centuries B.C., by non-Chinese peoples. (Reference: Regina Krahl, Yuegutang, A Collection of Chinese Ceramics in Berlin, G+H Verlag, Berlin, 2000, p. 55.)