Black-on-Red Flask

Black-on-Red Flask

Description:

Two-handled pottery flask in Black-on-red ware; wheel-made; globular body on a flat base; narrow neck with ridge, flaring to a trumpet mouth; pair of opposing arching handles; buff clay and red slip, decorated in black paint: solid bands on the neck, mouth and handles, band of fine parallel lines around the body, concentric circles on the shoulder.


Dimensions: Height: 11.50 centimetres


Object Type: flask


Ware: Black-On-Red Ware


Series: Black-on-Red II


Techniques: slipped; painted; wheel-made

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

750 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Amathus

Accession Number:

1894,1101.523