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Water Container

Object Number:2003-82-466
Current Location: Collections Storage
Provenience: Fiji Islands
Section:Oceanian
Materials:Ceramic
Glaze
Technique:Glazed
Height: 17.5 cm
Width: 18 cm
Credit Line:Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number:1993.X.457 - Other Number

Description

Water container with four round connected vessels. Two arching handles, with round hole where they cross. Large hole for filling on side of one vessel, small hole for drinking on opposite side. Decorated with lines of small round lumps, around the circumference of vessels, along tops of handles. Above lines of lumps on vessels parallel bands of cross-hatching.

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