Ceramic water pot

Collection type: Object
Description: Ceramic water pot
Long description: Water pot partly coated with a fine slip and painted with brown designs. [LKG 26/02/2009]
Geographical reference: Guyana
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Guyana
Person: Field collector Everard Ferdinand Im Thurn; PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1885
Date collected: By 1883 or December 1885
Acquisition information: Transferred: 1886, uncertain
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Material Pigment, Material Clay, Process Slipped, Process Handbuilt, Process Painted
Dimensions: Height 236 mm, Diameter: max 222 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1885.9.5
Research and responses: It is not clear if this is the set of pottery listed in the annual report for 1883, as there seems to be a possibility that the objects were acquired by the University Museum in December 1885. For this reason an entry has been made in prm possibles for the annual report entry as well, in case there is some previously found unentered Guyanan pottery still to be found [AP 11/10/2012]
A goglet is according to the Oxford Dictionary "a long-necked usually porous earthenware vessel used for keeping water cool." [MdeA 20/4/99]

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