Bichrome Ware Jug

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