JAR WITH TWO HANDLES AND EXPANDED NECK

Description The vessel has a slightly angular profile and a somewhat flattened shape, expanded at the top and tapering towards the narrow base. It has a large, flared neck, with an everted hem. The porous and opaque surface of the vase makes the decoration difficult to read in some places: the bottom is made of a red slip that covers the entire upper half of the container, including the neck and the inside of the rim. The main decorative band on the belly is inscribed within two black bands. Inside them runs a frieze of thick horizontal lozenges joined at the vertices: each is divided in four parts, and the smaller lozenges thus obtained are painted with a lattice motif. The decoration ends, at the bottom beyond the junction line of the belly, with a black band that at times thickens into solid “festoon” arches.