Description (Labels & Markings)
Written on base of the bowl in pencil "Bari", and on the lid "AM".
Event Date
Author: Clare McKenna

Description (Physical description)
Bowl with lid, black-glazed ware; ornamented with female heads and palmette (black paint on natural red clay). South Italian

Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Other)
This date range may be wrong as the handwriting was difficult to decipher
Event Date 1927
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Fragment missing from just above the base underneath one of the female heads. One female head on each side of the bowl; quite different in appearance.
Event Date 5/2000
Author: Clare McKenna

Description (Physical description)
Lidded bowl of buff ware with black glaze. Lid is conical with a double rim around the knob and the rim, with black radiating lines between; integral knob is wedge shaped and impressed in the centre to create an everted rim. Bowl has everted rim with internal flange for the lid; concave neck and short, rounded body and collared base with footring. The shoulder has two opposing sets of four pointed knobs, the central two are larger. Decorated on both sides with female heads in side profile wearing hats, different in appearance, flanked by spiral palmette motif, and comb-shaped decoration above; below the knobs are semicircular with radiating lines, though one has been covered with a thin layer of black glaze. Base of vessel has rough texture. Black glaze is applied unevenly on the inside of the flanged rim, covering the knobs and much of the radiating semicircle below. Small fragment missing above base.
Event Date 20/3/2024
Author: Clare McKenna