This splendid, richly decorated shape is known by the name of "botticella", it belongs to the Bell Beaker or Beaker vase culture.
This ceramic was part of a funerary kit that, according to popular belief, accompanied the deceased to the afterlife, and was therefore presumably filled with ritual food.
In fact, this type of vase was found only in underground tombs. The decorations are mainly geometric.
The original found in the Cagliari museum is dated between 2200 and 1900 BC (Bronze Age).
This artifact was created and decorated entirely by hand (without the use of the lathe), cooked at a temperature of 950° for approximately 15 hours. The imperfections present are intentionally produced following an antiquing process to which they are subjected, in order to evoke times gone by in the appraiser.
