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Fragment of Broad Shallow Vessel
- Culture: Harappa
- Medium: Red pottery with red and black slip-painted decoration
- Place Made: Chanhu Daro, Pakistan
- Dates: circa 2500 B.C.E.
- Period: Indus Valley Civilization
- Dimensions: 11.2 x 29 cm (11.2 x 29 cm)
- Collections: Asian Art
- Museum Location:
This item is on view in Asian Galleries, Arts of India, 2nd Floor - Accession Number: 37.75
- Credit Line: A. Augustus Healy Fund
- Image: Overall, 37.75_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
- Catalogue Description: Fragment of a broad shallow vessel with a wide flat rim. Reddish pottery painted on the inside and on the upper surface of the rim with a very stylized leaf pattern between the bands of three lines each, all in very dark red on a somewhat lighter red ground. On the underside of the rim are two dark red lines and a broader area in lighter red. The paint has been chipped off the edge. Earth incrustation still adheres in a few places.
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