Cypriot White Painted II Earthenware Footed Bowl
Cypro-Archaic II (950-850BC). Height 18.5cm. Diameter 10.4cm, diameter of rim 21.6cm.
A footed bowl with a slightly conical foot, a concave stem, and a convex lower body. The upper body is cylindrical with a rounded rim and two horizontal handles.Made of brick-coloured clay with a matte buff slip and black painted decoration. Black bands encircle the lower and upper body, rim, and interior. On either side of the upper body is a framed, hatched diamond motif surrounded by triangles and panels. The handles are also painted black.
The location and find date of the object is not recorded. It has been suggested that it may have come from Lapithos, Vathyrkakas, Idalion or Kition.
The bowl was given as a gift by L.Z. Pierides to the Crown Prince of Sweden Gustaf Adolf in 1925 and later donated to the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm in 1926. In 1982 it was deposited at the Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden (Inv. No.: SHM 17946:0005) joining objects from the SCE in the wider Cyprus collection.