Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card description: 'Vessel of grey clay with black burnished surface. Ornament; Swiss meander. Gessner No. 52 and 13. Traces of white inlay. Condition good.'
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Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
Old printed label with faded text adhered to object. Label reads: 'Auvernier. Lake of Neuchatel.'
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Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
Accession register description: 'Small black beaker. Geometric design.'
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Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (Analysis)
The ornament numbers refer to the Gessner publication, Pl. VIII; No. 281.
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Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Related Documents)
See catalogue card for sketch.
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Author: maa

Context (Display)
Old exhibition label mounted on perspex found with object, reading: 'Z.11544. Small beaker. (Late Bronze Age I).'
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Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (References)
University of Cambridge, Museum of General and Local Archaeology. (1892). 'The Walter K. Foster Bequest. Catalogue of the Antiquities.'
Event Date 1892
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
Chips missing from the surface of the body of the pot.
Event Date 6/6/2000
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (Display)
Exhibited: On display in the Andrews Gallery, case 4.17, from 08/03/2012 until 21/09/2020.
Event Date 8/3/2012
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
A small beaker of medium black fabric with a black burnished surface. Hallstatt A. The vessel has: a small, slightly concave base; a body with a rounded lower half and an almost vertical upper half with incised geometric decoration; a flat-topped, slightly everted rim with a shallow indentation around the inner edge. Incised decoration has traces of white infill, possibly lime, and consists of a row of double-outlined triangles with elongated double-outlined rectangles above, and a horizontal line below the rim.
Event Date 16/4/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad