Black-on-Red Globular Jug
Description: | Large pottery jug in Black-on-Red ware; wheel-made; globular body on a slightly splaying ring base; tall narrow neck with a trefoil mouth; double-ribbed handle from shoulder to rim; buff clay with a poorly fired black-red slip, decorated with intersecting bands and concentric circles in black paint; surface paint worn away in many places, revealing the fabric beneath the fugitive black paint. Dimensions: Height: 20 centimetres Object Type: jug Ware: Black-On-Red Ware Series: Black-on-Red III Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped |
Period: | Archaic II |
Date: | 600 - 475 BC |
Collection: | British Museum |
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Accession Number: | 1982,0721.6 |