Long-Beaked Jug with Paper Nautilus

1420-1370 BCE (Late Helladic IIIA1)

24.1 cm 26.7 cm

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Objects seen in nature can be abbreviated into patterns and motifs that still evoke the whole. Three spiraling tentacles signify the paper nautilus (argonauta argo), a type of octopus; the motif is repeated three times around the body of the jug. The row of curving brown petal...

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Robert Hecht, Jr., Maryland, 1957; Hesperia Art [firm of Robert Hecht, Jr.], Philadelphia, 1957 [Hesperia Art, III, no. 88]; Walters Art Museum, 1957, by purchase.
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