
Geometric II
Black-on-Red Flask
Pottery flask in Black-on-Red ware; wheel-made; globular body on a slightly raised flat base; narrow neck with a neck-ridge flaring to a trumpet mouth; two opposing handles arching from shoulder to neck-ridge; buff clay and red-orange lustrous slip, decorated in black paint: fine parallel lines on the body with broader bands on the neck; file of concentric circles on the shoulder. Object Type: flask Ware: Black-On-Red Ware Series: Black-on-Red I Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped
Date
900 - 750 BC
Accession No.
1908,0411.18
Collection
British Museum
Provenance
- Cyprus (?)