Geometric II

Black-on-Red Ware Flask

Black-on-Red ware pottery flask; spherical body with low ring base; two double-ribbed vertical handles (one lost) rising to narrow neck with ridge; spreading trumpet-shaped mouth with flaring rim (chipped); buff to red clay with light grey core and thick red, lustrous slip; painted with band of concentric horizontal rings black painted on body and on neck; row of three swastikas and three concentric circles on the shoulder on each side of the handle; ladder pattern on the handle; Black-on-Red I. Dimensions: Height: 16.50 centimetres Object Type: flask Ware: Black-On-Red Ware Series: Black-on-Red I Techniques: painted; slipped; polished; wheel-made