Vase Carrier

Pottery. Rim chipped. Fabric of medium fine texture, buff at core, outer surface red. Bulb handmade. Base wheel-made and probably also the flaring top. Medium polish. Upper surface of rim grooved. Bulb fluted and on ridges between channels rows of sunken circular depressions, once filled with white. In channels lines of white. Above and below bulb, horizontal ridges; upper and sunked depressions filled with white; lower has slanting oblong depressions with traces of white. Lower part pierced with 2 rows of arrow-shaped perforations. Base edge a row of dots.