Lots of Pots With Crimped Mouths

Eastern Zhou Dynasty
Three Gorges Museum, Chongqing

Hundreds of small crimped pots, later than the Western Zhou examples on the previous two pages, are strung up together in this innovative exhibit. They are intermediate in shape, and much smaller, than the forms seen on the previous two pages. Any kind of pot that was reproduced this often, had to have been very useful in some way to the culture that produced it. These come from Zhongba Zhongxian, like the vessel seen on the previous page.

Compare: Egyptian nw-vessels, globular pots with a narrow neck and without crimping. Similar pottery shapes appear in widely separated contexts, just because the repertory of truly practical forms is not really all that large.