Pot

Globular body, wide cylindrical neck. With pattern derived from birds. Painted in red, black, and white.

Wide mouthed vessel with a globular body, cylindrical collar, outward sloping rim, no handles, and a rounded base. No molded/modeled additions. The vessel is painted with a band of geometric design around the shoulder in white, black, red, and orange There is another band of geometric criss-cross design on the neck in white and black. There appears to be a burnished 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 in color. Fireclouding is present on the body. The catalogue number is written on the bottom of the base and black ink on the bottom of the base reads: "1646."