bowl
- Museum number
- 1905,0712.1
- Description
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Large pottery bowl with figural scenes in Bichrome ware; wheel-made; shallow, carinated body on a low ring base; pair of opposing horizontal loop handles.
In the interior of the bowl, the complex frieze of figures is arranged around a central rosette bordered by an interlocking cable motif. Three quarters of the frieze is taken up with pairs of women face each other smelling flowers on a tree. The rest of the scene show two couples engaged in sexual congress in various postures, and a single female clapping her hands and dancing with one foot raised. In front of the later is a diminutive bearded male touching (?) her skirt; the stylised trees bewteen these figures may suggested a wooded landscape, or else a continuation of the motivs from the rest of the frieze. The rim is painted with a border of chevrons. On the outside of the vase are two registers of decoration: a frieze of antithetic sphinxes facing stylised trees, and a frieze of stylised lotus petals.
- Production date
- 600 BC-500 BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 32.40 centimetres
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Diameter: 34.29 centimetres
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Height: 10.16 centimetres
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Height: 9.60 centimetres
- Location
- On display (G72/dc3)
- Acquisition date
- 1905
- Acquisition notes
- For details of the acquisition, see letters of vendor/shipping company and Original Letters 1906-08, L-Q, nos 950-962.
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1905,0712.1