Corinth Object: C 1934 1255
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1934 1255
Title:   POLYCHROME WHITE WARE CUP
Category Code:   C
Year:   1934
Object Number:   1255
Old Number:   C-1934-0886A-B (Lapsed)
Description:   Cup with flaring ring foot, deep globular body, slightly inset vertical rim, flaring lip.
Decoration:   Exterior, body, blue-green and purple guilloche with yellow centers on red dot field; purplish band at top of body; rim, reserved stripe, then blue with toothed edge, yellow on lip. Interior, black cross crosslet. Clear glaze over all.
Material:   Fine white clay with tiny black inclusions.
Condition:   Complete profile. Six joining frgts., complete profile, nearly complete foot, nearly 1/4 body, 1/6 rim.
Manufacture:   C67
Dimensions Actual:   H00.089 D00.060 (foot)
Dimensions Restored:   D00.125 (lip)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late Byzantine
Area:   Corinth XI N
Context:   NB143 P27
Provenance:   Constantinople
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N0332
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Monument: Corinth XI N
Image: bw 4534
Image: digital 2014 2596
Image: digital 2014 2597
Basket: NB143 P27
Notebook Page: NB 143, spread 43 (pp. 75 - 76)
Notebook Page: NB 143, spread 47 (pp. 83 - 84)