accessory cup

Unknown artist

2200 BC-1600 BC

pottery; incised; pointillé; perforated; pierced

British Museum

Accessory vessel; pottery; Aldbourne cup and lid; incised decoration, cup decorated internally with a row of reserved lozenges split and enclosed by single lines, the triangles filled with pointillé (some pricks piercing wall); on lower body, similar scheme below row of incised chevrons alternately filled with pointillé and reserved, enclosed above by line; on… base, concentric band of upright triangles filled with pointillé alternating with pendant reserved triangles between single lines; one pair of perforations in lower body: lid; on top, three concentric bands outlined by single lines, the lower two forming split reserved lozeng