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)

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1951.528 A-B: 'Two wheelmade bowls with wide mouth, ring foot and ridge defining the upper painted border. A: Buff ware painted red inside and lower part of body. Border 1.37 [inches] deep of painted fret pattern in black with red painted voids. The rim is damaged. B: Similar to A but with plain zig-zag black painted border with alternate triangles filled with red and yellow paint.'
Event Date 1951
Author: maa

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

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

Context (Display)
Exhibited: on display in the Clark Gallery, case 63, from 1984 until 01/03/2010.
Event Date 1984
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
Open-mouthed carinated bowl of wheel-made, buff coloured Nal ware, with polychrome painted decoration in brown, cream, black, red and yellow. All of the inside and the outside below the shoulder painted dark red-brown. Decoration above the shoulder consists of: a cream background; multi-outlined zigzags between horizontal lines, in black; lower triangles filled with yellow; upper triangles filled with red. The bowl has a shallow footring, a curved body with a pronounced shoulder ridge, and a straight, slightly inturned rim.
Event Date 26/9/2023
Author: Lizzy Peneycad