Bichrome Red Plate

Pottery plate in Bichrome Red ware; shallow body with a raised disc base and a wide everted rim; one side is pierced twice, presumably for suspension; orange-buff clay with a red slip, partially reserved (?) on the inner part of the underside; interior decorated in black paint with some added white: concentric bands and zigzags, black triangles on the wide rim with vertical white strokes within, perhaps stylised lotus flowers.

Dimensions: Height: 12.50 centimetres

Object Type: bowl

Ware: Bichrome Red Ware (Bichrome Red I (?))

Techniques: painted; pierced; wheel-made

Archaic I

1876,0909.62