Jug with Side Spout
1100-700 BCE
Description
Cypriote Early Iron Age. Oval body, upward tapering thin neck, tubular spout. On shoulder, three groups of parallel vertical lines between zig-zags. On central part of body, a wide red band between black rings of different sizes. Rings on lip and base of neck. Collar around spout.
Dimensions
H. 20.4 x diam. 15.9 cm (8 1/16 x 6 1/4 in.)
Related Artworks
View MoreSterling silver
20th centuryDanishTerracotta
5th century BCEGreekMonochrome glazed porcelain; porcelain with pale cobalt-blue glaze, the rim finished with an application of iron-brown slip simulating a metal band; with underglaze cobalt-blue double circle on the base
18th-19th centuryChinesePorcelain with white glaze and red and green overglaze enamels
14th-15th centuryChinesePale blue-green glass
1st-2nd century CERomanHarvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of the Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation and partial purchase through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChineseTerracotta
4th century BCEGreekHorn
17th centuryChineseTerracotta
18th-16th century BCENear EasternTerracotta
4th century BCEGreekOff white (or very light gray) stoneware with ash coating and natural ash glaze; with signature of the artist reading "Ken '00" inscribed on the base before firing
21st centuryJapaneseTerracotta
7th century BCEEtruscan