Harvard Art Museums > 1979.357: Shallow Bowl Vessels Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Shallow Bowl , 1979.357,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 23, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/289284. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1979.357 Title Shallow Bowl Classification Vessels Work Type vessel Date 6th-4th century BCE Places Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Iran Period Achaemenid period Culture Persian Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/289284 Location Location Level 3, Room 3400, Ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Art, Ancient Greece in Black and Orange View this object's location on our interactive map Physical Descriptions Medium Silver Technique Hammered Dimensions 4.7 × 16.9 cm, 44.67 g (1 7/8 × 6 5/8 in.) Thickness of wall at rim: 0.1 cm (1/16 in.) Weight: 280 grams Provenance Recorded Ownership History Frances L. Hofer, Cambridge, MA, (by 1979), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1979. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer Accession Year 1979 Object Number 1979.357 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description Hammered from a single sheet of metal, this silver phiale (libation bowl) has a shallow central navel or omphalos and is decorated with a pattern of radiating petals or leaves and, inserted between them, 14 lobes rendered in repoussé. The tips of the petals split to form an arch above each lobe, and a small upside-down teardrop appears where they split, as if growing from a calyx of leaves. There is a centering mark on the undersaide of the omphalos, and there are fine horizontal striations especially on the exterior of the rim. Black and brown patina with patches of green; crack in one lobe. Publication History Fogg Exhibit Explores Rich Tradition of Islamic Art, Harvard Gazette (July 25, 1980), p. 4 Susanne Ebbinghaus, ed., Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, 2018), pp. 150-151, fig. 4.14; p. 358, cat. 30 Exhibition History Re-View: S422 Ancient & Byzantine Art & Numismatics, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 04/12/2008 - 06/18/2011 32Q: 3400 Greek, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 01/24/2017; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/03/2023 - 01/01/2050 Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/07/2018 - 01/06/2019 Subjects and Contexts Google Art Project Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
