| Brief Description |
The juglet is decorated with a thick shiny buff slip with matt dark brown and bright red paint. There are four red spots along the top of the handle and four thin brown bands at mid neck. The upper neck and top of rim are bright red. Three thin bands are around the inside of the neck, below the rim. This pottery juglet is decorated in the style of Bichrome IV ware.
The juglet shows wear at the rim and has circular pitting and firing related eruptions on the body surface. It has a flat base and globular body. Its neck is long and cylindrical, thickening above the handle area and flaring towards the rim, which is everted. The handle is cylindrical in cross-section and is vertical from the lower neck to shoulder.
The juglet is one of a large collection of ceramics from Cyprus, donated to the Museum by Dr George Sleight, who lived in Cyprus and worked as Principal of the Morphou Teachers College. Later he became first Assistant Director and then Director of Education in Cyprus. After his retirement in 1956, Dr Sleight became Education Minister for Sierra Leone where he remained until at least 1961.
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