Black-On-Red Juglet

Black-On-Red Juglet

Description:

Pottery black-on-red ware juglet or perfume flask; globular body with a narrow neck flaring to a trumpet mouth; arched handle from shoulder to neck-ridge; flat base; pink-buff clay with a matt orange burnished slip, decorated in black paint with narrow bands around the body and neck, solid handle and three groups of concentric circles on the shoulder; surface blackened, perhaps from over firing, and pock-marked.


Dimensions: Height: 7.80 centimetres


Object Type: juglet; flask


Ware: Black-On-Red Ware


Series: Black-on-Red I; Black-on-Red II


Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped

Period:

Geometric II

Date:

900 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Accession Number:

1982,0721.45