Bowl

Kothon

MS408

From: Greece

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS408
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Greek
Provenience Greece
Date Made 499-400 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Intact. Narrow ring foot; flattened lenticular body; wide mouth; horizontal strap handle, ends turned up and out. Black glaze on interior floor. Interior wall reserved. Solid glaze on mouth. Sucession of narrow band, broad band, narrow band, and then very broad band on rim. Broad red band between two narrow bands on rim. Outside of handle glazed, but handle zone reserved. Rest of exterior of body solidly glazed with the glaze continuing over all of foot, aside from narrow reserved band on resting surface of foot. Glaze continues onto outer edge of undersurface of vase. Rest of undersurface reserved except for glazed circle at center. Shallow, with inturned rim.

Height 5.3 cm
Outside Diameter 14.8 cm
Credit Line Gift of Francis C. Macauley, Esq., 1890
Other Number 5597 - Old Museum Number

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