8c: Impressions of Basketry

Department Archive
Collection 1936 Exhibition Collection
Reference No. 1936/1/1/4/2
Level Sub-item
Dimensions 19.9 x 16.8 cm
Scope and Content A photograph of nine clay plates which have dried into them the impressions of woven baskets. The original description in the catalogue reads: "8c Impressions of basketry, on which potters set out clay vessels to dry; a glimpse of another domestic art, otherwise vanished."
Related records [BSA SPHS/1/1960.5063], Melos, Phylakopi: Pottery, impressions of plaited rush mats on which early pots were built up, 1896-1899
[1936/1/1/4], 8: Fisherman, Bronze Statuette, Impression of Basketry