Advanced Search
Advanced Search

Cup fragment

Early Aegean, Minoan
Bronze Age, Late Minoan I A Period

Medium/Technique Ceramic
Dimensions 7 x 12 cm (2 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. T. James Bowlker
Accession Number09.560
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsVessels

Catalogue Raisonné Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 052.
DescriptionPart of cup. Decoration in black turning to red on buff ground mainly curvilinear designs. A circle of dots on rim. Two horizontal bands. A thicker band at foot. Trefoil patterns between double -outlined rock patterns top and bottom.
ProvenanceAccording to Fairbanks, Catalogue: from Mochlos, Crete; Sent by the Candia Museum in recognition of a gift from Mrs. T. James Bowlker for the excavations by Richard B. Seager; gift of Mrs. T. James Bowlker to MFA, December 29, 1909