Object photograph·Csn3680·1927–1931

Pottery Bichrome IV, plate and jug, Metropolitan Museum 775

Pottery Bichrome IV vessel from the Metropolitan Museum, with two handles and painted geometric panels — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Csn3680. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A footed vessel with a wide mouth, two loop handles and a short stem foot, shown alone against a grey backdrop. Its body carries panels of checkerboard, lozenge and diamond patterns in white and dark paint, with banded lines on the shoulder and a dark band near the base. The number 775 is painted on the body, and the print is mounted on a card with handwriting along the lower edge.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Pottery Bichrome IV, plate and jug. Metropolitan Museum. 775

Swedish, as on the record

Pottery Bichrome IV, Plate - Jug. Metropolitan Museum. 775