Bichrome Red Skyphos Bowl - image 1

Archaic I

Bichrome Red Skyphos Bowl

Pottery bowl (skyphos) in Bichrome Red ware; wheel-made; deep body on a raised base; concave neck; pair of opposing near-horizontal handles; made of dark orange clay with a cream slip and black and buff painted decoration: lattice band around the neck; panels on body (rosettes, quatrefoils and groups of vertical lines). Dimensions: Diameter: 10.40 centimetres Object Type: bowl; skyphos Ware: Bichrome Red Ware (BiChRed I) Techniques: painted; slipped; wheel-made

Date

750 - 600 BC

Accession No.

1876,0909.43

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Cyprus