Ceramic jug with painted decoration. Buff ware pottery urn painted orange. This vessel has a rounded shoulder narrowing to a flat base. The shoulder is ridged and narrows to a narrow, short neck which terminates in a deep expanded rim. There are two small handles from the bottom of the rim to the shoulder. [MOBB [OPS move] 09/05/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Ceramic jug with painted decoration. Buff ware pottery urn painted orange. This vessel has a rounded shoulder narrowing to a flat base. The shoulder is ridged and narrows to a narrow, short neck which terminates in a deep expanded rim. There are two small handles from the bottom of the rim to the shoulder. [MOBB [OPS move] 09/05/2016]
Long description: Pottery jug with ?orange coloured vertical lines painted in the sides. [JP 13/7/2004]
Geographical reference: France
Europe > Western Europe > France; Auvergne Puy-de-Dôme Varennes sur Morge
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector John Wickham Flower; PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Roman
Date collected: 1855
Acquisition information: Transferred: 1892, uncertain Found unentered: 2004
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Material Pigment, Process Thrown, Process Painted
Dimensions: Diameter: max 145 mm, Height: max 200 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 2004.148.29
Research and responses: Note that only a tiny fraction of JW Flower items are also marked as being related to the Pitt Rivers founding collection. Whilst it is possible that they did originally form part of the founding collection, were brought from London in 1884 and then placed with the geological (or other) collections at Oxford University Museum of Natural History before eventually being transferred to the Pitt Rivers Museum it seems odd that they were not all recorded as being related to the founding collection. Most are attributed to being donated by Flowers to OUMNH and being transferred from there [AP 23/07/2009]

Search terms: Vessel, Pottery