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Chronology:
East Asia and the West
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Painted pottery basin; spiral style; c. 5000 BC, Northwest Culture (Miaodigou)
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Painted pottery basin; geometric style; c. 5000 BC, Northwest Culture (Banpo)
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White pottery pitcher; c. 4000 BC, East Coast Culture (Dawenkou)
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Black pottery cup; c. 3000 BC, East Coast Culture (Longshan)
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Stone and jade axes; c. 4000 BC, East Coast Culture (Dawenkou)
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Jade Pig-dragon, c. 4000 BC, East Coast Culture (Hongshan)
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"Jade furnished" tomb at Wujin, Jiangsu province; Liangzhu culture (a branch of the East Coast Cultural Tradition in the lower Yangzi River region); ca. 3000 BC.
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Jade cong-tube; c. 3000 BC, East Coast Culture (Liangzhu)
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Bronze
jue-cup from Erlitou, Henan province, late Xia or early Shang dynasty,
1st half of the 2nd millennium BC.
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Max Loehr’s “five style sequence” of Shang bronze decoration.
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Square bronze ding vessel decorated with Loher style 1 motifs, early-mid Shang dynasty, mid-2nd millennium BC.
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Bronze ding vessel decorated with Loher style 2 motifs, early-mid Shang, mid-2nd millennium BC.
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Bronze jia vessel decorated with Loher style 4 motifs, mid-late Shang, mid-late mullennium BC.
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Square bronze yi vessel decorated with Loehr style 5 motifs, late Shang dynasty, 13th-12th century BC.
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