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Beak-spouted jug
1000 BCE-650 BCE
- Medium
- earthenware
- Measurements
- 29.2 × 31.3 × 24.5 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Luristan, Iran
- Accession Number
- 450-D5
- Department
- Antiquities
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1962
© Public Domain
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- Not on display
- Physical description
- Vessel with channel-shaped spout, the globular/piriform body with flaring mouth, rope-twist bail handle terminating in spiral horns at the top of the spout, a simple handle opposite from shoulder to mouth with eye-like circles applied at rim level. White-slipped, burnished and decorated in red/brown with pattern of hatched triangles and diamonds with dotted circles at their corners, also lines with transverse hatching, and grouped transverse lines on the lower (simple) handle.