Ask the Scholar
Document scope · 4 pages
Scholar
Ask about this object, its catalog metadata, its source description, or the page inventory.
For page-specific OCR and visual context, open one of the page chats.
Source Description
This bowl is decorated with a raised design underneath the glaze. Bowls of this lotus design were exported from Egypt all over the eastern Mediterranean, especially to the Aegean islands and Anatolia (Asia Minor).
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
7771
label
Lotus Bowl
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
4
Source metadata
id
7771
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Lotus Bowl
description
This bowl is decorated with a raised design underneath the glaze. Bowls of this lotus design were exported from Egypt all over the eastern Mediterranean, especially to the Aegean islands and Anatolia (Asia Minor).
provenance
Reverend William MacGregor Colection Sale, Sotheby's, London, 1922, no. 241; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1922, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1922, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
3rd century BCE (Ptolemaic)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Ceramics
bowls (vessels)
imageCount
4
pageCount
4
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
9.5
height
13.6
dimensionsRaw
3 3/4 x 5 3/8 in. (9.5 x 13.6 cm)
Source extras
cul
Egyptian
med
Egyptian faience
creator_ids
6182
collection_ids
EGY
GRC
exhibition_ids
2237
Page inventory
seq
1
type
photo
mediaId
35ab36efdfaf0c88
hasOcr
no
hasDescription
no
seq
2
type
photo
mediaId
79fb7eb1cde34697
hasOcr
no
hasDescription
no
seq
3
type
photo
mediaId
bd618c49acc08547
hasOcr
no
hasDescription
no
seq
4
type
photo
mediaId
dd521b96880d1754
hasOcr
no
hasDescription
no