- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Tall narrow pottery vessel with a narrow flat bottom and two side handles. Painted brown with black and yellowish designs. [ASh [OPS move] 10/02/2016]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Kabyle Berber
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1900
- Date collected
- By 1900
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1900
- Dimensions
- Width: max 160 mm, Height: max 280 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1900.38.36
- Research and responses
Related Documents File - Analyses of pottery & painting pigments by H. Foxwhite F.L.S. [CF 22/10/2001]
- Associated publications
- This object was featured in the Museum’s ‘web gallery’ (‘Selected Objects from the Lower Gallery’) produced during the DCF-funded ‘What’s Upstairs?’ project, 2004–2006, with the following caption: ‘This double handled pottery vessel has been painted brown, with black and yellow designs. It was made by a Kabyle Berber potter some time before 1900. The hand-painted designs include geometric motifs. Such motifs are extremely common in Berber design, and appear on pottery, textiles, and leather.
1900.38.36
Tall narrow pottery vessel with a narrow flat bottom and two side handles. Painted brown with black and yellowish designs. [ASh [OPS move] 10/02/2016]
1900.38.36
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