Cypriot large black on red ware pottery bowl, reputedly ex. Cyprus Museum

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A large black-on-red ware painted pottery dish with two handles. The interior of the bowl is coated in a red slip while the rim and underside were left in the natural colour of the clay. A patch of red slip can be seen on one side of the rim where it was poured away before the additional black concentric circle decoration was added. It is relatively unusual for a vessel to combine both red slip and buff backgrounds on the same surface.

Culture
Cyprus, Early Iron Age, Cypro-Archaic, c. 750-600 BC

Size
7.8 x 29 cms includnig handles

Condition
Surface chipping as seen in the photographs, the interior face was varnished at some point in the 20th Century giving the surface a slight lustre. The bowl is slightly crooked due to mis-firing in antiquity

Provenance
Ex. private collection, Bath, Somerset, UK; acquired during residency in Cyprus with the British High Commission between 1969 and 1972. The collection was purchased from licensed antiquities dealers in Ledra Street, Nicosia, who were reputedly selling duplicate and surplus items on behalf of the Cyprus Museum.

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