<em>Molded Hemispherical Bowl</em>, 2nd–1st century B.C.E. Faience, 3 9/16 x Diam. 5 7/8 in. (9 x 15 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 33.581. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.33.581_NegID_L335_24_print_bw.jpg)

Molded Hemispherical Bowl, 2nd–1st century B.C.E. Faience, 3 9/16 x Diam. 5 7/8 in. (9 x 15 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 33.581. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.33.581_NegID_L335_24_print_bw.jpg)

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Molded Hemispherical Bowl

Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

On View: 19th Dynasty to Roman Period, Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Gallery, 3rd Floor

MEDIUM Faience

Place Made: Egypt

DATES 2nd–1st century B.C.E.

PERIOD Ptolemaic Period

DIMENSIONS 3 9/16 x Diam. 5 7/8 in. (9 x 15 cm) (show scale)

COLLECTIONS Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

ACCESSION NUMBER 33.581

CREDIT LINE Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund

PROVENANCE Archaeological provenance not yet documented, probably Canosa, Italy; by 1933, acquired by Demotte Galleries, Paris, France and New York, NY; 1933, purchased from Demotte Galleries by the Brooklyn Museum.

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CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Blue-green faience bowl with very thin walls. Breast shaped body, no rim, moulded. On exterior base, rosette (? lotus) surrounded by register of plain and veined leaves, above, wide register of light and dark squares within two plain registers; register of wave (?) pattern below rim. Incised vine border in dark blue around interior rim. Condition: Glaze badly worn, especially on interior where there is also some iridescence with surface turned brown. Two small areas of restoration on rim. Large cracks on one area. Three large kiln marks on base.

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MUSEUM LOCATION This item is on view on the 19th Dynasty to Roman Period, Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Gallery, 3rd Floor

CAPTION Molded Hemispherical Bowl, 2nd–1st century B.C.E. Faience, 3 9/16 x Diam. 5 7/8 in. (9 x 15 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 33.581. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.33.581_NegID_L335_24_print_bw.jpg)

IMAGE overall, CUR.33.581_NegID_L335_24_print_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

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