Description

Globular belly with sides spreading from small flat base and then rounded in to deep rounded sloping shoulder; shoulder rounded up to very tall collar neck with vertical walls which flare briefly to rim; small strap handle loops from low on neck to high on shoulder - handle decorated with applied medial 'piecrust' strip; small stubby squared secondary handle projects downward from below mid-point of belly.  Buff earthenware.  Painted decoration in dark red-brown and black pigments: shoulder with band with zigzagging red-brown band bordered with black bands forming triangular panels - red-brown 'swastika' outlined in black in each lower triangular panel; shoulder band bordered below by broad black band with pendant scalloping black line and above by black and then red-brown band ringing base of neck; exterior wall of neck with band of chevrons linked along encircling line; mouthrim black; interior wall of neck with double scalloping black line pendant from dark red-brown encircling line below narrow toothed band at mouthrim.  Scattered pits and small 'spit-out' chips in belly wall.