Bichrome Red Jug

Bichrome Red Jug

Description:

Pottery jug in Bichrome-Red ware; wheel-made; globular body on a splaying foot; narrow concave neck with a trefoil mouth; double-ribbed handle arching from shoulder to rim (repaired); buff clay and red slip, decorated in black and white paint: concentric bands on the body forming a bull's-eye pattern in the centre, rings around the neck, groups of white dots on the body.


Dimensions: Height: 24.30 centimetres


Object Type: oinochoe


Ware: Bichrome Red Ware


Series: Bichrome Red II


Techniques: slipped; painted; wheel-made

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

600 - 475 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Amathus

Accession Number:

1894,1101.470