Jug, ceramic product

SHORT DESCRIPTION:

The specimen was found together with other similar samples, in the extrados’ vault of the environment 16, where these artefacts were used again after the break or the defunctionalisation, as a material to fill or to light the vaulted roof. This is a pitcher, fortuitously recovered intact, with a striped rim, a trefoil mouth on the upper flared neck and a conical expanded body under the rod-shaped handle.

The decoration on the ceramic body is constituted by the typical decoration of geometric patterns with brown lines, nets and stripes, associated with decorative copper green bands on a white background. The article fits in the Sicilian productions of glazed ceramic of the XV Century, whose use is witnessed at the Castle of the Ventimiglia in a number of kitchenware as jugs, basins and bowls found during the excavations at the castle in the 90’s of the last Century.