Black Pottery Amphora

Western Han Dynasty
Sichuan University Museum, Chengdu

This type of double-handled amphora was made in Western Sichuan during the 3d-2d centuries B.C., by non-Chinese peoples. (Reference: Regina Krahl, Yuegutang, A Collection of Chinese Ceramics in Berlin, G+H Verlag, Berlin, 2000, p. 55.)

The Sichuan University Museum was founded in 1914 by an American, D. S. Dye. Its extensive collection includes painting, sculpture, bronzes, and ethnographic material.