White Painted Footed Cup

White Painted Footed Cup

Description:

Pottery footed cup in White Painted ware; wheel-made; deep body with a slight double-curved profile and everted rim; low conical foot with a flat base (hollow underneath); single handle from body to rim; cream-buff clay and slip, decorated in matt black-brown paint: pair of wavy lines on the shoulder, bands on the rim and inside the vessel, solid foot and handle, with a small fin-like motif descending from the base of the latter.


Dimensions: Diameter: 13 centimetres


Object Type: cup


Ware: White Painted Ware (WP I-II (?))


Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped

Period:

Geometric I

Date:

1050 - 900 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Kourion

Accession Number:

1982,0729.391