Vase

Red ware, flaring neck. Two loop handles shoulder to neck with pattern derived from birds , on two quadrangular fields.

Narrow-necked jar/bottle with an ovate body, flaring neck, rounded rim, 2 strap handles extending from the neck to the body, and a flat base. No molded/modeled additions. The vessel is painted with two fields of geometric design, one on either side of the body. There appears to be a smoothed finish on the exterior and a smoothed finish on the interior. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange and gray in color. Fireclouding is present on the base. There is a join line between the bottom and top half of the body. Evidence of usewear includes black staining on the interior. The catalogue number is written on the bottom of the base and black ink on the bottom of the base reads: "1261i."