What are the physical characteristics of Banpo painted pottery?

Banpo painted pottery developed 7000 ~ 6000 years ago, with Xi 'an banpo village site as a typical representative, and developed around Guanzhong Plain in Shaanxi. The typical shapes of Banpo painted pottery are bottom basin or bowl, lip-rolling basin, belly-folding basin, narrow-necked pot with big belly, gourd-shaped vessel and so on. The so-called typical pot and bowl with a bottom seems to be a part cut from a complete sphere. If you cut half from the top, it's a pot; if you cut half, it's a bowl and a plate. There is no stable bottom and handle or folded lips to support these bodies. On the one hand, it reflects that primitive people's modeling design of such daily utensils is still in a very naive primary stage. On the other hand, primitive people chose sphere as the basic shape of pottery from the beginning. This shape undoubtedly has many advantages for clay pottery, such as easy molding, not easy to damage, large capacity and so on. At the same time, it is also the most acceptable for human beings in aesthetic psychology. This aesthetic factor, such as roundness, perfection and stability, has influenced from painted pottery to today, even in ancient Greece. This simple spherical shape made painted pottery have a good start, and the folding lip basin in Banpo painted pottery was the earliest developed on this basis.

Changes of Banpo Painted Pottery Modeling