White Painted Barrel Jug

White Painted Barrel Jug

Description:

Pottery barrel jug in White Painted ware; wheel-made; elongated body with pointed ends; narrow concave neck with a flat, everted rim (squared profile); short handle from shoulder to neck, with a ridge at the junction; made of buff clay fired cream-white and decorated with black paint: vertical bands of sold and parallel lines around the handle, framing a vertical row of three sets of concentric circles; small ladder motif just below the handle; bull's-eye pattern on each end; fine parallel lines around the neck.


Dimensions: Height: 43.50 centimetres


Object Type: barrel jug


Ware: White Painted Ware


Series: White Painted V


Techniques: painted; wheel-made

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

600 - 475 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Gastria

Accession Number:

1982,0729.282