The thymiaterion was a funeral vessel, very rare in the repertoire of Daunian pottery, which was generally used to make offerings and to burn scented substances.
The word askos originally designates the skin of an animal that was sewn and turned into a skin intended to carry liquids, especially wine or water. This example, whose spherical shape with a large vertical neck recalls a wineskin, is a typical production of Daunian ceramists
A light beige-gray ceramic bowl, covered with a white slip; the decoration is painted in black under a beautiful turquoise glaze, thicker on the bottom where it partially dripped. This manufacturing technique, known as metal luster technique, is among the most important contributions of Islamic craftsmen to the development of ceramics.
This Western Asian Large Ceramic Bowl with painted animals is made of beige ceramic covered with a red slip; the shape is simple, trunconical and without handles; the flat circular base provides the bowl a good balance.
The bowl is perfectly turned. The ceramic is beige, but the surface is entirely covered with colored paint. The element that makes this piece a very special, perhaps unique object, is certainly the statuette of the quadruped.
To the eyes of the modern viewer, this large glazed ceramic bowl is outstanding for its aesthetic qualities resulting from the formal simplicity and the turquoise color.