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White Painted Basket-handled Jar

Pottery jar in White Painted ware; wheel-made; globular-biconical body on a low ring base; wide neck tapering outwards to a thick, rolled rim; large horizontal basket handles at the shoulder at each side of the vase; cream clay and slip, decorated in black to red paint: banded decoration around the body, solid black handles and a single wavy-line at the shoulder between the handles. Dimensions: Height: 21 centimetres Object Type: jar Ware: White Painted Ware (WP I-II) Techniques: painted; wheel-made

Date

1050 - 900 BC

Accession No.

1982,0721.71

Collection

British Museum

Provenance