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Collection: | | Corinth | Type: | | Object | Name: | | CP 1745 | Title: | | TURKISH LARGE GLAZED PITCHER | Category: | | Pottery | Category Code: | | CP | Object Number: | | 1745 | Description: | | Pitcher with low disc foot,ovoid body, steep shoulder curving into wide neck, rim offset by carination, thickened tapered lip. Neck and rim pinched to form spout. Vertical handle, triangular at base, attached to max diameter. | Decoration: | | Matt red-brown paint from mid height of body to rim. Over this palmettes painted in white clay slip on shoulder: one on axis of spout and another to either side; two more upside down from rim flanking spout. Green streaky glaze over palmettes and in irregular swags from rim. | Material: | | Fine light red clay | Condition: | | Complete profile. Complete profile,missing half of neck and 4/5 of rim. Lower handle stump; edge of foot chipped. | Dimensions Actual: | | H. 0.207; Diam. Of foot 0.087; Diam. Max 0.132 | Period: | | Turkish | Findspot Description: | | Acrocorinth, Upper Peirene. 1926 | Site: | | Corinth | City: | | Ancient Corinth | Country: | | Greece |
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