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, prominent neck-ridge and a flat everted rim; slightly concave 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, four groups of concenbtric circles on the shoulder.


Dimensions: Height: 10.80 centimetres


Object Type: juglet; flask


Ware: Black-On-Red Ware


Series: Black-on-Red II; Black-on-Red III


Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped

Period:

Archaic

Date:

750 - 475 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Cyprus

Accession Number:

1982,0726.42