Black-on-Red Trefoil Jug

Black-on-Red Trefoil Jug

Description:

Large pottery jug in Black-on-Red ware; globular body with a vertical neck and trefoil mouth; ring base; arching handle from shoulder to rim; buff-pink clay with a polished orange-red slip, decorated in black paint: vertical and horizontal concentric bands of parallel lines intersecting on each side of the neck, bulls eye motif on each side, groups of concentric circles in the spaces between, ladder pattern on the handle.


Dimensions: Height: 15.60 centimetres


Object Type: jug


Ware: Black-On-Red Ware


Series: Black-on-Red II


Techniques: painted

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

750 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Accession Number:

1908,0411.9