Bell Beaker Culture urns

Around 2500 BCE the neolithic (late stone age) population of Britain was almost completely replaced by bronze-age people migrating from Europe. The newcomers made distinctive bell-shaped pottery, and we now know them as the Bell Beaker Culture. The image below is of a funerary urn. The rings around the top are typical, the loops less so. These urns often have a more bell-shaped top than this example. See second image below.

The loops on this urn are fairly rare in bell beaker artefacts, but add a nice feature

Image from: Ten Thousand Years of Pottery by Emmanuel Cooper (ISBN: 9780714127798)

Bell Beaker artefacts, Spain. More clearly bell shaped urns, which gives the culture its name.

Image licensed under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0. Junta de Castilla y León, Archivo Museo Numantino, Alejandro Plaza

It was an interesting challenge to see if I could make a wooden vase inspired by this ancient object. Since these people worked copper, it is not too much of a stretch to imagine the shape in copper. This allowed me to play with one of my favourite embellishing techniques; copper paint and oxidising solution.