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 nipple base and two vertical concave lugs, one of which is pierced. Made of fine buff clay, evenly slipped and polished, fired black above and in interior, and red below; decorated with white lime-filled zigzags and circles on the body, with semicircles at the rim.


Dimensions: Diameter: 11.35 centimetres; Height: 14 centimetres; Width: 15.20 centimetres overall width


Object Type: bowl


Ware: Red Polished Ware


Series: Red Polished I-II (north coast) (Stewart type XIII B c2 3 var. c)


Techniques: handmade; slipped; incised

Period:

Early Bronze Age II

Date:

2300 - 2100 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Vounous

Accession Number:

1939,0217.11