Description

Sides spread straight from small flat base and then curve in to broad smoothly rounded swelling shoulder; short spreading collar neck; two small looped strap handles below shoulder.  Salmon-buff earthenware.  Painted decoration in black and deep red pigments: broad band on shoulder bordered below by encircling band above undulating line - one drip down - and containing four medallions, each with central finely cross-hatched medallion divided into four quadrants by dotted 'X' and ringed by two red bands bordering black band with reserved dots and then broad black outer band; medallions framed below by series of concentric lines springing from four vertical axial lines; base of neck ringed by red band bordered below by broader black band; band of black chevrons on exterior wall of neck, interior wall with large dashes bordered above by red band with narrow band of black parallel lines at mouthrim.