Bichrome Red Jug

Bichrome Red Jug

Description:

Pottery jar in Bichrome Red ware; wheel-made; depressed ovoid body on a raised disc base; wide flaring neck with a plain rim; opposing pair of small crescent-shaped lugs; made of buff clay, slipped and decorated with bands of black and white paint: a central wavy band around the middle of the body, also band inside the neck; small hole in the body below the handle at one side; surface of vase chipped in places.


Dimensions: Height: 12.70 centimetres


Object Type: jar


Ware: Bichrome Red Ware (Bichrome Red III (V))


Techniques: wheel-made; slipped; painted

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

600 - 475 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Marion-Arsinoe

Accession Number:

1890,0731.35