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Jugs with mid-body cordon and mask on neck
DAT 329-405
This is a fragmentary jug with pouring lip. mask and pewter lid. It has the normal pronounced foot. with lower body paneled with alternating cobalt-blue. The mid-cordon is wide and wedge-shaped. The upper body consists of two intricately decorated panels. with two floral. slamped decorations surrounded with cobalt-blue. Two roughly semi- circular panels are divided by moulding lines; one is decorated with scalloping. the other is plain. Above at the base of the neck is another series of cordons with a central. naturalistic mask and a distinctive pouring lip. A pewter lid has a knob decoration comprised of a series of disks. The lid extends outwards to cover the jug lip and is attached to the handle. Again. there are no exact parallels. but von Bock (1971: Nos 477 and 480) illustrates a series of EngalsaMwit masks.
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