Vase Catalog Number: Boston 03.781

Decoration:

The clay is a warm brown, decoration in slightly lustrous black glaze; dull brown when applied thin, and burned to dark red-brown in places when applied thick. The body is squat and slightly ovoid; it has a high base with large rectangular perforations, a wide mouth with a vertical edge, and horizontally attached strap handles with projections at each end. On the cover is a high cup, cylindrical below, widened and with horizontally attached handles above. On the body, the main zone opposite the handles has vertical lines separating panels which contain horizontal bands of lozenges or a vertical checker pattern or a latticed band with round top. There are small zigzags above each handle, a wavy line below, and on the handles themselves, vertical zigzag lines. Above the main zone are a band of vertical wavy lines and a band of compressed lozenges separated by horizontal lines. Below the main zone is a band of vertical wavy lines and two black bands separated by horizontal lines. On the base, the space between the perforations is latticed. On the cover is a band of vertical wavy lines and horizontal black bands separated by lines. On the lower part of the cup is a band of vertical zigzags, between its handles is a band of connected dotted circles, and at the top is a line of dots, all separated by horizontal lines.

Parallels:

For similar cramped and dense ornamentation, see Coldstream pl. 13c, Athens 14411 and pl. 14b, London 1905.10-28.1

Collection History:

Bartlett Collection, 1903.

Sources Used:

Fairbanks 1928, 79, n. 265, pl. XXI; Coldstream 1968, pls. 13c, 14b

(Anne Leinster)