Terracotta jar with long narrow neck and small flat base and a small mouth. Slipped red from the mouth to just below the shoulder, buff colour below here. Unglazed surface. [ASh [OPS move] 10/05/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Terracotta jar with long narrow neck and small flat base and a small mouth. Slipped red from the mouth to just below the shoulder, buff colour below here. Unglazed surface. [ASh [OPS move] 10/05/2016]
Geographical reference: Europe
Europe
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector John Wickham Flower; PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Date
Date collected: By 1873
Acquisition information: Transferred: 1892, uncertain Found unentered: 2004
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Process Slipped
Dimensions: Diameter: max 105 mm, Height: max 237 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 2004.148.31
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

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