Flask

For storing and pouring liquids.

Collected by Mr. Cesnola. Part of a collection made in Cyprus in 1873 and presented to the Metropolitan Museum for the 1875 opening.

Flask, consisting of light brown, gritty clay full of small to medium-sized white limestone particles and fine mica with a thick, cream slip. Red and black thin, matt paint. No base, globular body, flaring neck, two vertical handles from neck to shoulder, two protruding knobs on belly, one on either side. Decoration consists of: on the rim, a broad red band, below are three black bands, horizontal strokes on shoulder. On each side of body, a group of five concentric, vertical circles on outside edge and a group of four black concentric vertical circles diminishing in width from outside in at centre of body around knob.