Name/Title
Wine JarDescription
Seventeenth century Italian wine jar with a very bulbous body. Painted decoration covering the vessel - lines of green, rellow, and blue running horizontally in an abstract pattern, lines of black running vertically through the yellow lines. Blue lines towards the bottom with black lines surrounding it.Dimensions
Height
19.05 cmDimension Description
BaseWidth
6.98 cmColor
Green, Blue, MustardLocation
* Untyped Location
Ceramics CaseRelationships
Related Places
Place
* Untyped Place
Dump Site, Atlantic OceanIsland
BermudaGeneral Notes
Note Type
Historical NoteNote
EXHIBIT TEXT:
An Isolated Find
The globular bottle is one of many objects found on the reefs that come from no known wreck. Of Italian or Spanish origin, and dating from the 17th century, it provides a vivid example of majolica that retains its tin glaze.