2007.104.27: Mold-Made Bowl of Megarian Type

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2007.104.27

Title

Mold-Made Bowl of Megarian Type

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

150-50 BCE

Places

Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Asia Minor

Period

Hellenistic period

Culture

Greek

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/57469

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Terracotta

Dimensions

7.3 x 11.7 cm (2 7/8 x 4 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Purchased by David Mitten in the Bazaar of Istanbul, Sept. 1965.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection, Department of the Classics, Harvard University

Accession Year

2007

Object Number

2007.104.27

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

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Descriptions

Description

Reddish-buff micaceous fabric with worn metallic slip misfired to shades of black, brown, and red. Mold-made with attached wheel thrown rim. At the base of the bowl's exterior is a rosette in relief, enclosed within two concentric circles. Smooth and scored acanthus leaves radiate from this. Small rosettes occupy the space between the tips of these leaves. Above these is an egg-and-dart border below the thick, plain, wheel-made rim.

Exhibition History

• Hellenistic Art: Objects from an Expanded World, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/03/2006 - 07/29/2007

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