Body Sherd of Kamares Ware Jar | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1960.252.53
Title: Body Sherd of Kamares Ware Jar
Classification: Fragments
Work Type: sherd
Date: 16th-15th century BCE
Places: Creation Place: Europe, Greece
Period: Minoan period, Middle Minoan II
Culture: Minoan
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/291008

Physical Descriptions

Technique: Wheel-made

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Bequest of David M. Robinson.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of David M. Robinson
Accession Year: 1960
Object Number: 1960.252.53
Division: Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact: am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: From an open jar. Kamares Ware painted decoration; a large, thick spiral in white paint atop a black slip. The interior has a thick, diagonal band of dark brown-red slip. Exterior paint is very faded, and the slip is exteremly chipped. Pinkish buff fabric. MM IIB

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. 7, no. 2

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1960.252.53: Body Sherd of Kamares Ware Jar