Black-on-Red Perfume Flask

Black-on-Red Perfume Flask

Description:

Pottery Black-on-Red ware perfume flask or juglet; globular body with a flat base; narrow neck with ridge and flaring to an everted rim; arched handle from shoulder to the neck-ridge; pink-buff clay with a thin reddish matt slip, signs of burnishing, decorated with black banded decoration; surface very worn.


Dimensions: Height: 7.90 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:

Accession Number:

1908,0411.31