Bichrome-Red Perfume Flask

Bichrome-Red Perfume Flask

Description:

Pottery juglet or perfume flask in Bichrome-Red ware; ovoid-globular body with a narrow neck tapering upwards to a trefoil spout; arching handle from shoulder to rim; slightly concave disc base; pink-buff clay with red matt slip, decorated in black paint with parallel bands around the body and concentric circles on the shoulder; white dots on the black bands around the neck, traces of white paint on the body; surface worn.


Dimensions: Height: 10.50 centimetres


Object Type: juglet


Ware: Bichrome Red Ware (Bichrome-Red I-II)


Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped

Period:

Archaic

Date:

750 - 475 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Cyprus

Accession Number:

1982,0726.41