A Biconical Vessel
Eastern Central Europe, Bronze to Iron Age Lusatian Culture, ca. 1300 - 500 B.C.
Fired Clay
Height: 23.2 cm
Diameter: 25.8 cm (mouth)
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Vessel with biconical shape and broad mouth. Flat base. Belly coated with coarse slip. Neck and shoulder polished. Grey-beige clay, recent black-grey discolourations in the neck zone. Some glued cracks and restored fragments in the rim zone.
PROVENANCE
Formerly priv. coll. Hanfstengel, Munich, 1920s-1930s. Thereafter private coll., Switzerland. Accompanying note ""Jütländischer Becher der jungsteinzeitlichen Einzelgrabkultur, Fundort: Südvorstadt von Breslau".
NOTE
E. Wesely-Arents, Studien zu Chronologie und Besiedlung der Lausitzer Kultur in Sachsen auf Grundlage des Gräberfeldes von Liebersee. Studien zur Lausitzerkultur III (Langenweissbach 2011) 67-68 "Doppelkoni" type 4.