- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Red ware pottery vase with a flattened base and an oval body. [ASh [OPS move] 15/03/2016]
- Long description
- Red ware pottery vase with a flattened base and an oval body. The neck is sculpted with the features of a human head with the hair created by scraping a comb on the pottery. There are raised nodules on the side of the vessel. [ASh [OPS move] 15/03/2016]
- Date
- Date collected
- By 1902
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1902
- Materials and processes
- Material Pottery, Process Moulded, Process Scraped Carved
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 115 mm, Width: max 200 mm, Height: max 257 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1902.83.34
Search terms: Figure, Death, Pottery, Vessel, Religion, Grave Good
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