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Bowl (white painted III ware)

CYPRUS
Bowl (white painted III ware)
 1900 BCE-1575 BCE

Medium
earthenware

Measurements
8.2 × 10.8 × 14.3 cm

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Colonel Aubrey H. L. Gibson (Rtd), 1968

Reproduction requests

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Cyprus

Accession Number
1851-D5

Department
Antiquities

Physical description
Hemispherical bowl with horizontal loop handle. White painted ware with geometric hatched line designs painted onto the exterior body and handle in dark brown. The painted design on the interior of the bowl includes both geometric line design and two circles of wavy lines running around the upper and lower interior body. Handbuilt. The slip varies in colour from cream to orange.

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