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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.461
Title
Bowl
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
c. 2500-2000 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Cyclades
Period
Cycladic period, Early
Culture
Cycladic
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/289195

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Marble
Dimensions
4.5 x 13.7 cm (1 3/4 x 5 3/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of David M. Robinson
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.461
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Published Catalogue Text: Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums , written 1990
7 Cycladic

Bowl

One side of bowl has been cracked in numerous fragments and repaired.

This kind of simple bowl without feet, handles, or lugs is the shape most frequently executed in marble during the Early Cycladic period. In the majority of examples, as here, the rim is slightly rounded and set off on the interior by means of a shallow groove. There are many examples in varous sizes and proportrions, thirty such bowls being recorded in a private collection in Athens; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, no. 1962.180, is of similar dimensions. The bowl found on Thera with the two Karlsruhe harpers seems related, if more elegant (Thimme, Getz-Preziosi, 1977, pp. 318, 508, no. 299). For a complete discussion of the chronology of these bowls see Getz-Preziosi, 1987, pp. 67-74.

Cornelius Vermeule and Amy Brauer

Publication History

  • Fogg Art Museum, The David Moore Robinson Bequest of Classical Art and Antiquities, A Special Exhibition, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1961), p. 26, no. 204
  • Patricia Getz-Preziosi, "Cycladic Art in the Fogg and Farland Collections", American Journal of Archaeology (1966), 70, p. 111, no. 10, pl. 27, fig. 26
  • Cornelius C. Vermeule III and Amy Brauer, Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 22, no. 7

Exhibition History

  • The David Moore Robinson Bequest of Classical Art and Antiquities: A Special Exhibition, Fogg Art Museum, 05/01/1961 - 09/20/1961

Verification Level

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