Cypriot Archaic black-on-red ware large pottery bowl
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A large black-on-red ware pottery bowl with painted decoration consisting of a frieze of concentric circles above numerous fine linear bands.
Culture
Cyprus, Early Iron Age, Cypro-Archaic, c. 750-600 BC
Size
13 x 24.5 cms
Condition
Intact as shown, a small ancient firing crack on the rim with associated minor loss to the surface slip (seen as a small pale patch on the rim)
Provenance
Ex. collection: Mr and Mrs. Healey, Chaucer Lodge, Chaucer Road, Canterbury, UK; acquired mid 20th Century and thence by descent. A photocopy of a letter dated 1972 from the Royal Museum and Public Library, Canterbury, briefly describing this vessel and other antiquities from the same collection accompanies the item.