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 |