Red-on-Red Bowl - image 1

Middle Bronze Age III

Red-on-Red Bowl

Pottery bowl in Red-on-Red ware; handmade; hemispherical shallow with a horizontal loop handle at the rim; pinkish-buff clay with a polished orange-red slip red, worn on the handle and underside, with painted decoration in dark red consisting of parallel wavy lines in a cruciform motif inside and out. Dimensions: Height: 7.20 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: Red-On-Red Ware Series: Red-on-red (SCE type I A c) Techniques: handmade; painted; slipped

Date

1750 - 1550 BC

Accession No.

1950,1108.1

Collection

British Museum

Provenance