A red pottery taper-end handled flask, Yangshao culture, Banpo phase, c. 4800-4300 BC 仰韶文化 半坡類型 紅陶尖底瓶

See a Banpo rope-patterned amphora of this size, but slightly slimmer in proportion, in the British Museum, London, accession no. 1959,0216.4, illustrated in Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Pottery and Porcelain: From Prehistory to the Present, London, 1991, p. 12, fig. 1.