Black-On-Red Ware Jug

Black-On-Red Ware Jug

Description:

Pottery jug in Black-on-Red ware; wheel-made; globular body on a conical ring base; tall thin neck, tapering upwards to a trefoil spout; single handle from shoulder to mouth; made of fairly fine buff clay with a red slip and black painted decorated: large concentric circles on both side of the vase; surface worn in places.


Dimensions: Height: 17.50 centimetres


Object Type: jug


Ware: Black-On-Red Ware


Series: Black-on-Red III


Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

600 - 475 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Amathus

Accession Number:

1894,1101.522