Pottery vessel of buff ware, slipped red and with the rim painted black. [MOBB [OPS move] 12/04/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Pottery vessel of buff ware, slipped red and with the rim painted black. [MOBB [OPS move] 12/04/2016]
Long description: Pottery vessel of buff ware, slipped red and with the rim painted black. The base is slightly flattened, leading to a rounded body, a defined corner with a flattened shoulder. The neck is short and cylindrical leading to a small flared rim. The shoulder is decorated with wavy lines painted in a white/cream colour, possibly with a comb. [MOBB [OPS move] 12/04/2016]
Geographical reference: India
Asia > Southern Asia > India; Southern India
Person: Field collector Power Foote; PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Date
Date collected: By 1873
Acquisition information: Transferred: 1892
Materials and processes: Material Pottery
Dimensions: Diameter: max 235 mm, Height: max 183 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1892.67.60
Research and responses: 'Power Foote' is perhaps a reference to Robert Bruce Foote [Dan Hicks 05/07/2012]
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]

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