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| Picture shows a painted pottery pot in the shape of a boat, a relic of the Yangshao culture that cxisted 4,800-4,300 years ago. |
What merit even greater attention, however, are painted pottery utensils found at a place also called "'Miaodigou'" on the foot of Mt. Huashan in Shaanxi. These are beautiful with strinRs of decorative patterns painstakingly designed and arranged. Research has led to the discovery that the workmen first used dots to mark the position of each pattern on the roughcast of a utensil, and then linked the patterns with straight lines or curved triangles to form a decorative belt vigorous and rhythmic in artistic style. A careful viewer won't miss those lines cut in intaglio or relief, forming rose flowers, buds, leaves and stems.
Pottery utensils of the same Yangshao culture that are found in different places invariably have different theme patterns for their decorative belts. Nevertheless, patterns with rose flowers as the theme decoration are found on pottery of all types, indicating an inherent link of theirs. |
