Context (Field collection)
Catalogue card notes: ‘collected by Colonel Benn early in the present [20th] century in S. Baluchistan about 100-200 miles south of Kelat. It came from grass covered mounds.’ Although no findspot was given when the collection arrived in 1951, the British Museum also has a similar group of material collected by Colonel Benn and donated by him in 1913 (BM 1913,0308) which they list as from Nal [Naal]. It may then be that MAA’s collection is from the same site, and this has been tentatively added to the Place field. Colonel Benn was a political agent in Chagai, Balochistan from 1906-1912, which is likely when both the MAA and British Museum objects were collected.
Event Date 1906
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Analysis)
Described by the donor, Leila Alice Russell Benn, as ‘Mekrani pottery’.
Event Date 1951
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (Acquisition Details)
Given by Colonel Robert A.E. Benn to his cousin, Charles Anthony Benn, whose widow, Leila Alice Russell Benn, presented it to the museum. 
Event Date 1951
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card (1951.539 A-C): 'Three open-mouthed bowls, wheelmade and of buffware with ring foot. Plain colours. A and B: With dark red brown paint inside and outside. C: Painted light red inside and outside.'
Event Date 1951
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Display)
Exhibited: on display in the Andrews Gallery, Case 4.13, between 13/04/2012 and 17/02/2020.
Event Date 13/4/2012
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Open-mouthed bowl, wheel-made and of buff ware with ring foot. Plain colours with dark red brown paint inside and outside.
Event Date 8/4/2020
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Open-mouthed bowl of fine, buff coloured Nal ware, painted internally and externally in dark red brown. Wheel made. The bowl has a shallow footring, curved body and a straight, upright rim.
Event Date 25/9/2023
Author: Lizzy Peneycad