White Painted Trefoil Jug

White Painted Trefoil Jug

Description:

Pottery jug in White Painted ware; wheel-made; globular-biconical body on a raised disc base; conical neck and trefoil rim; single handle from shoulder to rim; orange-red clay and buff slip, decorated with black paint: bands around the body and neck; surface very heavily encrusted.


Dimensions: Height: 14.60 centimetres


Object Type: jug


Ware: White Painted Ware (WP IV-V)


Techniques: painted; wheel-made

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

600 - 400 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Gastria

Accession Number:

1982,0729.340