Black-on-Red Trefoil Jug - image 1

Archaic I

Black-on-Red Trefoil Jug

Large pottery jug in Black-on-Red ware; globular body with a vertical neck and trefoil mouth; ring base; arching handle from shoulder to rim; buff-pink clay with a polished orange-red slip, decorated in black paint: vertical and horizontal concentric bands of parallel lines intersecting on each side of the neck, bulls eye motif on each side, groups of concentric circles in the spaces between, ladder pattern on the handle. Dimensions: Height: 15.60 centimetres Object Type: jug Ware: Black-On-Red Ware Series: Black-on-Red II Techniques: painted

Date

750 - 600 BC

Accession No.

1908,0411.9

Collection

British Museum

Provenance