Bichrome Ware Jug
Description: | Pottery jug in Bichrome Ware; wheel-made; globular body on a raised disc base; flaring neck with a trefoil mouth; single two-ridged handle from shoulder to rim. Made of fine buff clay, main surface fired to a cream-buff colour, decorated with black and red paint: large bull's eye motif surrounded by concentric cirlces and bands on both sides of the bory; horizontal bands on the neck. Dimensions: Height: 23.80 centimetres Object Type: jug Techniques: painted |
Period: | Archaic II |
Date: | 600 - 475 BC |
Collection: | British Museum |
Provenance: | Gastria |
Accession Number: | 1982,0729.276 |