Vase

A round earthenware jar with a wide mouth, two small loop handles, and a dark slipped body painted with a lattice of diamonds in red-brown and buff. Triangular motifs fill the diamonds, and the lower body is left plain buff, suggesting a Neolithic painted pottery vessel.

Look closer: Small triangular motifs are painted inside the diamond lattice on the dark body.

Artist

Unknown

Date

c. 3000–2500 BCE

Medium

earthenware with slip coating and painted decoration

Source

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Size

3400 × 2882 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Cleveland Museum of Art, Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund