Pottery
While the Hongshan people were highly proficient in jade work, both in their artistic conception and in implementation techniques, their contribution to the art of pottery was very limited

a unique Hongshan pottery, bottomless tub with no practical usefulness; rows of such tubs are layed out to edge stone tomb piles covering individual or multiple graves; another example below


another distinct tyoe of Hongshan pottery, not clear for what use as the open mouth reduces its content holding capacity especially for liquids; perhaps used for presenting offering to gods with content easy to see from above

a some- what often seen type, close to the type found in chahai and xing long wa

Left: another relatively common type, though an unusual specimen in being more elaboratively decorated

Right: a somewhat altered shape, with stylistically similar drawn motifs

Left: yet another slightly varied version