| Brief Description |
This pottery spouted bowl is decorated in the White Painted IV ware style and dates from the Middle Cypriote II-III period, 1900 BC to 1650 BC.
The bowl is one of a large collection of ceramics from Cyprus, donated to the Museum by Dr George Sleight, who lived in Cyprus and worked as Principal of the Morphou Teachers College. Later he became first Assistant Director and then Director of Education in Cyprus. After his retirement in 1956, Dr Sleight became Education Minister for Sierra Leone where he remained until at least 1961.
The bowl has a rounded base with a hemispherical body. There is a long, thin tubular spout on the front opposite a high vertical handle which is attached at the rim and lower body. It is decorated with a thick, buff slip and paint whose colour varies from black-brown to red-brown. On the base is a thick, partly black-brown, partly red-brown, circle containing two intersecting wavy lines. Horizontal lines divide the sides of the body into two sections filled with rows of crosshatched triangles. Part of the lower section is red-brown. The rim is painted. There are a series of horizontal bands around base and length of spout. The sides of handle are painted and there is a double zig-zag line on top.
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