1d: Polychrome Designs

Department Archive
Collection 1936 Exhibition Collection
Reference No. 1936/1/1/1/4
Level Sub-item
Dimensions 9.3 x 12 cm
Scope and Content An illustration of a vase with a repeating design. Some parts are shaded with ink and lines while some are left with just the outlines of patterns: this indicates which fragments they had at the time of illustration. The original description in the catalogue reads: "Polychrome designs on vases of 'Kamáres' style (Middle Minoan: cf. 51, 52) imported from Crete to Melos about 1800 B.C.: white enhanced with other colours, on black slip."
Related records [1936/1/1/1], 1: Geometric Ornament and Polychrome Designs