Black-on-Red Perfume Flask

Black-on-Red Perfume Flask

Description:

Pottery perfume flask or juglet in Black-on-Red ware; globular body with a narrow neck and a flaring trumpet ridge; slightly raised disc base; arched handle from shoulder to neck-ridge; buff-pink clay with matt red-orange slip, decorated in black paint: parallel bands on the body and neck' rim chipped.


Dimensions: Height: 10.70 centimetres


Object Type: flask; juglet


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:

Gastria

Accession Number:

1982,0729.208