Black-on-Red Flask

Black-on-Red Flask

Description:

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

Period:

Geometric II

Date:

900 - 750 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Cyprus (?)

Accession Number:

1908,0411.18