Lotus flowers

Lotus flowers

Description:

Loto flowers of compact, egg -shaped body, short, thick neck, which is too lightly narrowed, flat, bent border, two opposite, flat handle, which extends from the edge to the shoulder, conical foot.The two zones on the shoulder between the handles are each identical with a field with two lotus flowers and buds with dots outside their contour.There are two chess -like patterned triangles between the lotus flowers.A circular segment with a hanging diamond and small crosses over and between the triangles.Horizontal ligaments around the middle of the body, three groups of concentric circles around the neck.Diagonally running brush strokes on the flat part of the handle, ligaments along the outside of the Henkel.A.Bernhard-Walcher and others, the Cypricer Antique Collection in the KHM.Collection catalogs of the KHM Vol. 2, Vienna 1999 (V. Karageghis)


H. 17 cm, Dm. (Mündung) 10,2 cm

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

750 - 600 BC

Collection:

Vienna Museum

Provenance:

Schneider, Robert von, Dr., Vienna;1895 exchange

Accession Number:

Antikensammlung, IV 1858