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Beak-Spouted Jar with Dark-on-Light Painted Decoration
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Flat base. 3 bands of paint around throat and neck. Lip also painted. thick, quick brush work encricling where the round-handle joins body. Heavy burnishing marks evident. Paint is very faded, vessel cracked and restored.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Gift of the Schimmel Foundation. From Palaikastro Crete.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of The Schimmel Foundation
Title: Beak-Spouted Jar with Dark-on-Light Painted Decoration
Description:
Flat base.
3 bands of paint around throat and neck.
Lip also painted.
thick, quick brush work encricling where the round-handle joins body.
Heavy burnishing marks evident.
Paint is very faded, vessel cracked and restored.
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