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jar

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human history
  • Description

    jar. Spherical body, rounded flat base, restricted opening form. Neck is 61mm long, with vertical sides. Neck is not vertical but angles to one side. One side of rim is present showing the rim was oriented near vertical. Handle from below the rim to the upper part of the body.

    Slip of light cream-brown on exterior and base with brown thin lines at regular intervals around the circumference of neck and body separating triangular shapes (apex up) with cross-hatched lines inside. The base has a 6 point star defined by alternate broad and narrow brown painted lines enclosing a broad brown line circle and a cross inside that. Wheel made.

  • Place
  • Accession Number
    1956.116.2
  • Other Id

    34694 (ethnology)

  • Department
  • Display Room
vessel, 1956.116.2, 34694, Photographed by Richard NG,… … Read more

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