Vessel with Birds - Mycenaean Common Style - 1400-1100 BC - Ceramic Vase

Item Specifics

Condition: New, Handmade in Greece.
Material: Clay
Height: 16 cm - 6,3 inches
Width: 18 cm - 7,1 inches
Length: 9 cm - 3,5 inches
Weight: 350 g

The pottery of the Mycenaean civilization (1550-1050 BCE), although heavily influenced by the earlier Minoans based on Crete, nevertheless, added new pottery shapes to the existing range and achieved its own distinctive decorative style which was strikingly homogenous across Mycenaean Greece. Mycenaean wares typically display stylized representations of marine and plant life and show a fondness for minimalistic linear designs, a trend which would go on to influence the early pottery of Archaic and Classical Greece from the 9th century BCE.