Base Ring II Tankard - image 1

Late Bronze Age II

Base Ring II Tankard

Pottery tankard in Base Ring II ware; hand-made; piriform body with a ring base and a wide neck with flat everted rim; strap handle with bifurcated thumb grip from rim to shoulder; made of ornage clay with mottled brown slip and white painted decoration of encircling and vertical parallel lines. Dimensions: Height: 17 centimetres Object Type: tankard Ware: Base Ring Ware Series: Base Ring II (SCE type XB 1a) Techniques: painted; slipped; handmade

Date

1450 - 1200 BC

Accession No.

1960,0517.1

Collection

British Museum

Provenance