White Painted Trefoil Jug

White Painted Trefoil Jug

Description:

Squat pottery jug in White Painted ware; squat globular body on a narrow, slightly raised base; wide, somewhat concave neck with a trefoil mouth; cream clay and slip, decorated in black and reddish-brown paint: three stylised tree motifs on the body, single bands around the neck and on the rim, a pair of eyes on the mouth, zig-zag on the handle.


Dimensions: Height: 18.40 centimetres


Object Type: jug


Ware: Bichrome Ware (Bichrome IV)


Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

750 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Cyprus

Accession Number:

1982,0726.17