Vessel, Bottle, Polished, Red ware
Production date
1860 BCE-1640 BCE
Country
Cyprus
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Object detail
Description
"Red and black polished ware bottle. Globular body with heavy rounded base, tall cylindrical neck, widening to funnel shaped mouth with broad everted rim. Horizontally pieced below rim on both sides, buff brown clay with lustrous slip, fired orange brown to black. Finely incised decoration, filled with lime. On neck and upper body four vertical motifs arranged in opposing pairs, comprised of two bands of three connecting diamonds formed of multiple parallel incisions and two three column checkerboards with alternate blank and hatched rectangles, closed by a single border. Two horizontal broken multilinear bands with continuous borders on upper neck, one at neck base and one at mid body. Small hatched diamonds and groups of oblique parallel lines serve as in-fillers on body. Mended." (Webb, Jennifer M., 1997 "Corpus of Cypriote Antiquities", Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, Vol. XX: p.2)
Classification
ARCHAEOLOGY Cypriot bottle
Production date
1860 BCE-1640 BCE
Production place
Measurements
L221mm x W111mm x D111mm
Media/Materials description
Pottery
Slip
Slip
Signature/Marks
On neck and upper body four vertical motifs arranged in opposing pairs, comprised of two bands of three connecting diamonds formed of multiple parallel incisions and two three column checkerboards with alternate blank and hatched rectangles, closed by a single border. Two horizontal broken multilinear bands with continous borders on upper neck, one at neck base and one at mid body. Small hatched diamonds and groups of oblique parallel lines serve as in-fillers on body. Given decoration, Webb ascribes the bottle may be related to the work of Morris 'Tiered Diamond Artist styles A and B' (Webb p 2)
History and use
Fine table ware changed in form and design - especially items crafted for trade. Potters then as now, have a keen eye for design, crafting varius pottery shapes, and using various slips, colours and patterns to inject personality into form. Many incised designs wre filled with white material after firing, to highlight the design.
Associated person
Registration number
H15843
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