White Slip Bowl - image 1

Late Bronze Age I

White Slip Bowl

Pottery bowl White Slip I ware; curving conical body with flat but slightly concave base; single pierced lug handle; buff clay and dull white slip; orange painted decoration with three parallel bands of orange-brown paint below the rim, four symmetrically arranged motifs of vertical lattice bands flanked by parallel lines, the lattice continues into the base forming a cross-cross pattern, edge of the base is defined with a thin band of red paint; body of vessel cracked next to handle. Dimensions: Diameter: 16 centimetres; Height: 5.70 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: White Slip Ware (Cypriot) Series: White Slip I (SCE type 5) Techniques: slipped; painted; pierced; handmade

Date

1600 - 1450 BC

Accession No.

1879,1119.7

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Cyprus