Double Vessel

Pottery. Annular bases, globular bodies; with bridge and, on closed vessel, a bird the head of which is missing. Painted with red-white-black with dotted vertical stripes.

Narrow necked jug with a double-chambered globular body, tapered neck, missing rim, 1 bridge handle extending between the necks, and a ring base/foot base. The vessel is red slipped and painted with vertical bands down the bodies of white and black strip and dot design. There is a modeled/molded bird on top of one of the necks with a hole at the base, serving as a whistle. There appears to be a burnished finish on the exterior. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange in color. The catalogue number is written on the object in black ink on the bottom of the base. Black ink on the bottom of the base reads: "653."