JAR WITH TWO HANDLES AND STRAIGHT NECK

Description This vessel appears as a flattened globular olla, very expanded at the top and tapering towards the narrow base, with a high truncated cone-shaped neck. Two eye loops are applied symmetrically below the maximum diameter of the vessel. In their correspondence, on the neck below the hem, see two small flaps (whose function is unknown) are visible. The main motif of the decorative band, typical of Banshan terracotta, is of the so-called “flask” type. It consists of four equidistant and repeating patterns, drawn with a continuous red line and almost connected to each other at the upper vertices. The shape of these motifs recalls the outline of a globular vase without a foot and with a very everted rim, with the inside forming a dense, black net. Also painted black are the spaces separating the “flasks”, with symmetrical almond-shaped savings and a triangle at the bottom.