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Two-handled ovoid vase with lotus flower

Cypriote
Cypro-archaic IIB Period
about 600–475 B.C.

Medium/Technique Ceramic, Bichrome V Ware
Dimensions Legacy dimension: 0.199 H. 0.142 D.
Credit Line Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number01.8048
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsVessels

Catalogue Raisonné Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 190.
DescriptionOn each side a lotus flower in a panel between two cross-hatched panels. A nick in the lip. Said to be from Cyprus.
ProvenanceBy 1901: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in London: said from Cyprus.); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, December 1901