A clay Greek style amphora. It has an egg-shaped belly, a round foot and a narrow neck with two handles. The vessel is painted in a brick-red colour. It is decorated with white and black painted decoration in the form of four ancient warriors (three Greek hoplites and a Persian warrior), placed between columns surmounted by the image of a bird. Geometric patterns were painted on the upper and lower parts of the vase. The item is not marked. According to the donor, the amphora was made at the Wekstein's factory of stoneware in Łowicz, while the decorations were made by students of the Pr. Józef Poniatowski State Junior High School for boys in Łowicz .
The stoneware factory, owned by the Wekstein family with Jewish roots, operated between 1875 and 1939. Initially, production was supervised by specialists imported from Bunzlau (today's Bolesławiec), who trained local workers in the production of stoneware. In the interwar period, the Wekstein factory was one of the largest of its kind in Europe and periodically employed between 70 and 200 people. Its products were very successful in the Kingdom and abroad, and were awarded at exhibitions
The high junior high school for boys operated in Łowicz from 1919 to 1939 (in 1932, it was transformed into the First Pr. Józef Poniatowski State Senior High School and Junior High School in Łowicz). From 1925, the school was housed in the former post-missionary building (now the seat of the Łowicz Museum), adjacent to the Wekstein's factory building
(M. Wojtylak, Saga rodu Weksteinów [in:] "Łowiczanin. Kwartalnik Historyczny" 2015, no. 1 (48), pp. I–III). References: Wojtylak M., Saga rodu Weksteinów, [in:] "Łowiczanin, Kwartalnik Historyczny", 2015, No. 1 (48), pp. I-III.
