Object photograph·Csn3686·1927–1931

Pottery Bichrome IV, plate and jug (755)

Painted jug with a modelled head at the top of the neck and a large dark bird painted on the body — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Csn3686. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A single round-bodied jug with a tall neck, photographed against a plain grey backdrop. The neck is banded with dark lines and a zigzag, and the body carries a large dark bird with a hatched wing, a long curved neck and short legs, its breast filled with dotted and striped patterns. The number 755 is written on the body beside the bird.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Pottery Bichrome IV, Plate - Jug. Metropolitan Museum. 755.

Swedish, as on the record

Pottery Bichrome IV, Plate - Jug. Metropolitan Museum. 755.