Water Jar
Arts of the Americas
MEDIUM
Ceramic, pigment
DATES
late 19th–early 20th century
DIMENSIONS
height: 11 in. (27.9 cm)
diameter: 14 in. (35.6 cm)
ACCESSION NUMBER
X1104.9
CREDIT LINE
Brooklyn Museum Collection
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
This short-necked globular vessel without turned rim is a large, classic water jar. The jar has a white slip background and a brown and red symmetrical, repeating design of an abstracted bird between a double set of "Deer with heart lines inside its House" which is separated by a frieze of three birds.
CONDITION: There is a small hole in side midway up body and a crack extending the length of body near the hole. There is a crack on the neck and a hole 1 ¼ inches long just below the neck. The pigment is worn away in some places, most notably on the neck. The slip shows small cracks and there's a dark "smudge" on one side.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
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