A large number of Chinese Neolithic pots of Bashan and Machang types, mid to late 3rd Millennium BC.

The pots in question, are believed to be from the Gansu and Qinghai region in the Upper Huanghe area, in the North-West of China. They can be dated to the Majiayao culture (c. 3100-2700 BCE) and more specifically the Banshan type (c.2600-2300) and Machang type (c. 2200-2000). Since Andersson's discovery of a Neolithic village in 1921, some sixty Neolithic cultures have so far been identified, each one producing pottery. Ceramics are an integral part of China's identity in the West, and this small selection of pots on exhibition are part of the affirmation of the extraordinary aesthetic and technical accomplishments of Neolithic China.