Floral Frieze
Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
Although the use of glazed tiles and colored paste inlays is known from as early as the Old Kingdom, the apogee of their use came during the New Kingdom (Dynasties XVIIII–XX). An almost identical frieze of lotuses, other flowers, and grape clusters is known to have adorned a wall of a palace of Ramesses III at Tell el Yahudiya in lower (northern) Egypt.
MEDIUM
Faience
DATES
ca 1187–1156 B.C.E.
DYNASTY
Dynasty 20
PERIOD
New Kingdom
DIMENSIONS
2 1/2 × 1 × 11 1/2 in. (6.4 × 2.5 × 29.2 cm)
mounted: 5 × 14 × 1 1/4 in. (12.7 × 35.6 × 3.2 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
55.182a-i
CREDIT LINE
Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Register of nine faience tiles representing lotus, rosettes, and grape frieze. Forms alternately conventionalized lotus flower and triangles, the latter inlaid with rosettes and bunches of grapes or with conventionalized tree (?). Polychrome glaze, red, blue, white yellow, etc. The marks on the rear sides of fragment d and fragment g.
Condition: Poor. Three lotus forms incomplete. Two rosettes missing. Glaze worn.
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Floral Frieze, ca 1187–1156 B.C.E. Faience, 2 1/2 × 1 × 11 1/2 in. (6.4 × 2.5 × 29.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 55.182a-i. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 55.182a-i_PS22.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 55.182a-i_PS22.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2024
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