C-Ware – bottle C-0434

A large, horizontal crosshatched band is painted at the level of the maximum diameter. A figural scene is shown above it. A long, vertical plant design that consists of a stem with oblique 'branches' on either side, raises from that band and nearly reaches the rim. To the left is a similar, but shorter, plant motif; between the two is a so-called 'tassel' design. Further to the left is a series of five heavily stylised animals, which all face toward the right and all have their body hatched. The largest animal, in the centre, is a (wild) bull with large crescent-shaped horns; it has a short tail and amane is depicted on its neck. Its front legs are not depicted. The other four animals, similar to one another, are likely dogs. By comparison with similar scenes, it can be deduced that they are hunting the bull and surrounding their prey: one is placed between its legs, one just in front of it, on above its back, and the last one behind it in an oblique position, as if trying to bite the bull's hindlegs, althought there is no contact between the two animals. A horizontal band, divided in two parts by a vertical line running in its middle, is hatched.

The inside of the rim is painted with a continuous series of vertial lines.