"Black Slip Bichrome Flask"

"Black Slip Bichrome Flask"

Description:

Pottery flask in a hybrid Black Slip Grooved/ Bichrome ware; wheel-made with applied details; tubular spout; body partly cylindrical with flat face and partly convex; four pierced ear-handles (one lost); black and red bichrome decoration including spotted rosette on flat face of body.


Dimensions: Length: 12 centimetres


Object Type: flask


Ware: Bichrome Ware


Techniques: painted; pierced; slipped; wheel-made

Period:

Archaic

Date:

750 - 450 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Cyprus

Accession Number:

1876,0909.20