Zulu Pottery Vessel

pottery

Style/Movement: Tribal

Zulu pottery vessel of spherical form, with applied panels of stippled ornament around the body.
With burnished patina.
Literature: Levinsohn, Rhoda: "Art and Craft of Southern Africa", Johannesburg 1984.Since the Zulu drinking vessels and their contents symbolize hospitality, those used for entertaining guests are invariably decorated to enhance their beauty. The Zulu incise decoration into the surface of their pots using zigzag, arc, cross-hatch, triangle, and diamond motives.