Red Polished Tulip Bowl

Red Polished Tulip Bowl

Description:

Pottery 'tulip' bowl in Red Polished black-top ware; hand-made; deep body with a pointed base, pierced horizontally; pair of opposing horn-like lugs on rim, one pierced, below these are knob-shaped lugs, one perforated to form a spout on the opposite side to the pierced lug; made of fairly fine clay mixed with grit and straw, covered with a lustrous slip fired red on the exterior and black on the top and interior; decorated with chevrons composed of incised parallel lines filled with white lime.


Dimensions: Diameter: 12.60 centimetres; Height: 11 centimetres


Object Type: bowl


Ware: Red Polished Ware


Series: Red Polished I-II (north coast) (Stewart type XIII B d2 4 sub-var 2)


Techniques: incised; handmade; slipped; polished

Period:

Early Bronze Age II

Date:

2300 - 2100 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Vounous

Accession Number:

1939,0217.3