Bichrome Red Ware Krater

Bichrome Red Ware Krater

Description:

Pottery Bichrome-Red ware crater (wine-mixing bowl) or jar; wheel-made; ovoid-spherical body on a high splaying foot; low but wide cylindrical neck; everted horizontal rim; pair of opposing handles of composite form: double-rib vertical handles connected to the body by a triple-rib support. Made of buff clay with a dull red slip, decorated with red, black and white paint: bands, panels of lotus-flowers and concentric circles.


Dimensions: Height: 39.50 centimetres


Object Type: krater; jar


Ware: Bichrome Red Ware


Series: Bichrome Red II


Techniques: painted; slipped; wheel-made

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

600 - 475 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Cyprus

Accession Number:

1869,0604.51