White Painted Bird Flask

White Painted Bird Flask

Description:

Pottery flask in White Painted IV ware; hand-made; bird-shaped body (with tail feathers) with an arching handle on top of the body; small cutaway spout, concave sides; made of orange-buff clay decorated with matt orange-brown paint: parallel diagonal lines on the body, horizontal parallel lines on the neck and bands around the handle.


Dimensions: Height: 10.16 centimetres; Length: 10.16 centimetres


Object Type: flask


Ware: White Painted Ware


Series: White Painted IV (SCE Type XVIII, c)


Techniques: painted; handmade

Period:

Middle Bronze Age III

Date:

1800 - 1650 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Cyprus

Accession Number:

1876,0909.11