Jug 006

Jug 006

An s-shaped profile jug. It has no rim. The lip sits atop a long, narrowing neck. It features an egg-shaped, bulging body. The base is flat with a clear foot. Two handles are attached on opposite sides just above the middle of the neck and half-way up the body. The jug features an engraved and painted ornament. A stripe engraved using a pottery knife runs around the jug where the neck meets the body. Two stripes are engraved around the upper part of the body.
The painted ornament displays a geometric and floral motif. Under the stripe between the neck and the body there is a white engobe painted ornament in the form of large dots gently glazed in green (copper oxide) split by two vertically aligned smaller dots (only engobe). There is a sharp-tipped scalloped line above the double engraved grooves running around the jug comprising alternating diagonal white lines and double spiral shapes with dots in the eyes of the spirals (one in each) and small dots around the spirals. An ornamental stripe runs around the widest part of the body. It is made up of wide, white painted ellipses with diagonal (from left to right) lines painted inside. On top the ellipses are contoured by dots. On the bottom, where the ellipses come to a point, there are diagonally painted (from left to right), antithetically aligned, stylized short floral offshoots, gently coloured using copper glaze (green). An ornamental stripe runs below the body. It is made up of wide, white half-ellipses with painted diagonal (from left to right) lines above and diagonally painted lines below the half-ellipse. The bottom half-ellipse highlight is gently coloured using copper glaze (green). The entire jug was glazed using a transparent coating.

Exhibit: jug
Materials, technique: ferrous clay, fired in an oxidizing environment, painted using copper oxide glaze (green) and kaolin clay (white); pottery-making
Dimensions: height 50 cm, lip diameter 13.3 cm, base diameter 16 cm
Made in: 2nd half of the 20th century
Origin: Kolbuszowa
Owner: Folk Culture Museum in Kolbuszowa