Faience bowl, Late Bronze Age II Cypriot — Faience bowl, Late Bronze Age II Cypriot, c. 1300–1200 BC. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 74.51.5070.Open Access by the MET

Late Bronze Age II

Faience bowl

Interior, lotus flower This is probably a local, Cypriot imitation of an Egyptian faience lotus bowl. Here, the flower is on the interior. The exterior of metal phialai are often articulated with more or less stylized petals. H. 2 in. (5.1 cm) diameter 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)

Classification

Object type: Faience object
Shape: Bowl
Decoration: Moulded
Motif: Lotus
Material: Glass and faienceFaience
Period: Bronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)
Date: 1300 - 1200 BC
Place of production: Cyprus
Findspot: Idalion

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Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

From Cyprus, from a tomb at Idalion

References

Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1903. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 3. pl. CVIII, 1, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1577, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Foster, Karen Polinger. 1979. Aegean Faience of the Bronze Age. p. 50, n. 314, New Haven: Yale University Press.

Identifiers

Accession no.: 74.51.5070, Metropolitan Museum of Art
In catalogues: Myres 1914, no. 1577

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