Megarian bowl with rich floral decoration
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Object number
AR2646
| Object: |
Deep hemispherical bowl So-called Megarian Bowl. |
| Material: |
Red clay with partially preserved dark slip
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| Date: |
About 2nd - 1st century BC Hellenistic period |
| Description: |
Hemispherical bowl. The body is decorated with moulded acanthus petals, leaves and palmette pattern, a rosette in tondo on the base, a band of foliage below the rim.
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| Historical note: |
The so-called Megarian Bowls are relief-decorated bowls which originate from the Hellenistic period, where they became much more popular than the painted pottery of earlier times. The name "Megarian" was given to this type of pottery in the late nineteenth century, after the discovery of a large amount of such bowls at the ancient city of Megara. Although it has since been demonstrated that bowls of this type originated in Athens in the third quarter of the third century BC, the attribution as "Megarian" bowls remained popular and unchanged. These bowls were popular in the entire Mediterranean area and were produced at a number of different centers in the second and first century BC for local use and export.
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| Size: |
Height 79 mm, diameter 116 mm
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| Condition: |
Excellent condition, the bowl is undamaged and unrestored. Small chips which do not disturb the overall perfect impression. Sharp and well preserved mould-made decoration, fine patina. With a note "Reliefbecher 86 Foto" written by hand by the previous collector, and the remains of a sticker (most probably from the auction house where the bowl was acquired, not legible). |
| Literature: |
Tanju Anlagan, Sadberk Hanim Museum. Moldmade bowls and related wares (Istanbul 2000)
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| Provenance: |
Acquired 2018 from U. Kuehn who inherited this bowl along with other objects from the German private collection Schulz in 2018. Mr. and Mrs. Schulz have built up a large collection of prehistorical, ancient and ethnographic art in the 1960s to the early 1970s, with a focus on Cypriot Bronze and Iron Age art. The pottery objects were acquired on the London art market around 1970, many of them at Sotheby's auctions. Parts of the collection were on exhibition in the Bielefeld Museum of Art History (Kunsthistorisches Museum Bielefeld) from March 6 till April 7, 1977, as part of the exhibition "Werke der griechischen Antike" and are published in the exhibition catalogue.
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| Authenticity: |
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