White Painted Trefoil Jug

White Painted Trefoil Jug

Description:

Pottery jug in White Painted ware; globular body with concave neck and trefoil mouth; sunken base; angular handle from shoulder to rim; buff clay and slip decorated with black paint: single band around the neck, groups of swastikas on the body, a ladder pattern on the handle with a hook motif hanging from the lower end, a pair of eyes on the mouth.


Dimensions: Height: 13.50 centimetres


Object Type: jug


Ware: White Painted Ware (WP III)


Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped

Period:

Geometric II

Date:

900 - 750 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Cyprus

Accession Number:

1935,0611.4