Black-on-Red Perfume Flask - image 1

Archaic

Black-on-Red Perfume Flask

Pottery perfume flask or juglet in Black-on-Red ware; ovoid-globular body with a narrow neck flaring to a wide, everted rim; flat base; arched handle from shoulder to neck-ridge; orange-pink clay with a red-orange matt slip, decorated in black paint: parallel bands on the body and neck; surface very eroded in places, part of rim missing. Object Type: flask; juglet Ware: Black-On-Red Ware Series: Black-on-Red II; Black-on-Red III Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped

Date

750 - 475 BC

Accession No.

1880,0710.85

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Amathus (?)
  • Limassol (city) (?)