Cypriot Bichrome Amphora

An ancient Miniature Cypriot bichrome ware amphora, with lateral handles, body painted with thin parallel lines and concentric circle designs.

Cypro-Archaic.
Ca. 800 - 600 BC.
Height: 4 in. (10 cm).

Black-on-red Cypriot pottery reached its peak popularity during the Cypro-Geometric period to the Cypro-Archaic period, from 1000 BC to 600 BC. Most examples are small, miniature vessels made of thin-walled red-brown clay, then covered in a similar coloured slip, and finally geometric patterns were then applied in black pigment.

cf.: Metropolitan Museum of Art 74.51.873
Formerly in the collection of Jerome Eisenberg, New York.
Inv#: 9249
Guaranteed Authentic

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