Bowl
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Object Label
Commissioned by John Hancock, president of the Continental Congress, the Philadelphia-based artist Charles Willson Peale painted George Washington as Commander-in-Chief just before the issuing of the Declaration of Independence. Washington enslaved more than three hundred people on his Virginia plantation prior to and during his tenure as the nation’s first president. However, the tension between the existence of slavery and the Declaration’s affirmation of freedom and equality (“all men are created equal”) is absent from Peale’s celebrated portrait.
Caption
Bowl, ca. 1295–1185 B.C.E.. Faience, 1 1/2 × Diam. 4 1/4 in. (3.8 × 10.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 34.1182. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.34.1182_NegA_print_bw.jpg)
Title
Bowl
Date
ca. 1295–1185 B.C.E.
Dynasty
Dynasty 19
Period
New Kingdom
Geography
Place made: Egypt
Medium
Faience
Classification
Dimensions
1 1/2 × Diam. 4 1/4 in. (3.8 × 10.8 cm)
Credit Line
Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
Accession Number
34.1182
Rights
Creative Commons-BY
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Frequent Art Questions
Could you tell me how faience was made?
Faience is a man-made mixture of "ground quartz or quartz-sand held together by and alkaline binder. The bright and shiny surface seen on this figurine is a result of glazing. The glaze was made of a form of powdered glass mixed with a liquid and applied either with a brush or by dipping the entire figurine.It gets it's blue color from copper that is mixed into or applied to the surface of the quartz body before firing.
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