Squat bichrome jug in free-field style with image of bird picking a lotus flower, Archaic Cypriot
Squat bichrome jug in free-field style with image of bird picking a lotus flower, Archaic Cypriot, c. 750–475 BC. Ashmolean Museum, AN1967.1088.Image © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Archaic

Squat bichrome jug in free-field style with image of bird picking a lotus flower

Squat bichrome jug in free-field style with image of bird picking a lotus flower

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Shape
Jug
Decoration techniques
Painted, PaintedPainted in two colours
Motifs
Bird, Lotus
Material
Clay
Period
probablyIron AgeCypro-Archaic
Date
750 - 475 BC
Place of production
Cyprus

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Provenance

  • From Cyprus

Identifiers

Accession no.
AN1967.1088, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology · Museum record

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