Black-on-Red Ware Bowl - image 1

Archaic I

Black-on-Red Ware Bowl

Deep pottery bowl in Black-on-red ware; wheel-made; deep body with slightly convex, vertical side and inturning rim; rounded base; buff micaceous clay with a red to brown slip, decorated in black paint: plain horizontal bands on the body with concentric circles on the underside, bands of fine concentric lines in the interior with a small bull's-eye motif in the centre; surface very worn. Dimensions: Diameter: 13.50 centimetres; Height: 5.50 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: Black-On-Red Ware Series: Black-on-Red II Techniques: painted; slipped; wheel-made

Date

750 - 600 BC

Accession No.

1880,0710.11

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Aradhippou