Squat Globular Stirrup Jar
1200-1100 BCE
Description
Handles are painted red, with reserved triangles. The top disc has concentric circles and large dot in the center. There are bands of paint link the spout with the false spout. 2 thick concentric bands frame 3 thinner ones on shouler and belly. Hollowed bottom. Red-brown clay, slipped, with red paint. Some of surface is pitted and slip is chipped.
Dimensions
9.5 x 13 cm (3 3/4 x 5 1/8 in.)
Provenance
Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
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