Jug
1/1/001-31/12/200
| Place of origin |
Jug of pale yellowish earthenware, covered with a thick alkaline glaze, once green but now decayed to an iridescent whitish colour, with ovoid body, with the greatest width at the base. It has a disk foot and a thin cylindrical neck with a flat splayed lip; double needed vertical handle from the neck to the shoulder, with a sharp kink at the top. Two grooves are scored round the shoulder at handle-level.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | |
| Brief description | Earthenware jug covered in a thick alkaline glaze, Syrian or Mesopotamian, 1st-2nd century or later. |
| Physical description | Jug of pale yellowish earthenware, covered with a thick alkaline glaze, once green but now decayed to an iridescent whitish colour, with ovoid body, with the greatest width at the base. It has a disk foot and a thin cylindrical neck with a flat splayed lip; double needed vertical handle from the neck to the shoulder, with a sharp kink at the top. Two grooves are scored round the shoulder at handle-level. |
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| Object history | Provenance: Sotheby's, London, 31 July 1939, lot. 97. According to the Ceramics and Glass Register from 1939, this item was 'formerly part of the collection of Max Ginsberg, Berlin'. |
| Production | So called "Parthian" pottery |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.199-1939 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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