Bichrome Basket, Archaic I Cypriot basket-handled vessel — Bichrome Basket, Archaic I Cypriot, c. 750–600 BC. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 74.51.438.Open Access by the MET

Archaic I

Bichrome Basket

Decorated with triangular red openings and concentric circles in black. 1 3/4in. (4.5cm) Other: 5 9/16in. (14.1cm)

Classification

Object type: Pottery vessel
Ware: Bichrome ware (Iron Age)
Shape: BowlBasket-handled vessel
Decoration: PaintedPainted in two colours
Motifs: Concentric circles, Triangles and lozenges
Material: Clay
Period: Iron AgeCypro-ArchaicCypro-Archaic I
Date: 750 - 600 BC
Place of production: Cyprus

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Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

From Cyprus

References

Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 587, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Identifiers

Accession no.: 74.51.438, Metropolitan Museum of Art
In catalogues: Myres 1914, no. 587

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