The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 25, 2023

Decorated Amphora with Ibex Head

Before 1920

Egypt, Modern pastiche

Marl clay ware

Diameter: 21.2 cm (8 3/8 in.); Overall: 32.4 cm (12 3/4 in.)

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1920.1997

Location

not on view

Description

A splendid example of the decorated pottery known as "palace ware," made only in Dynasty XVIII. It is painted with garlands imitating the real flowers with which vessels were draped at banquets. This vase was found in the palace of Amenhotep III at southern Thebes.

Provenance
Purchased from Nicolas Tano, Cairo, through Howard Carter
Citations
Egypt's Golden Age, the Art of Living in the New Kingdom, 1558-1085 B.C.: Catalogue of the Exhibition. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1982. Cat. no. 81
Kozloff, Arielle P., Betsy Morrell Bryan, Lawrence Michael Berman, and Elisabeth Delange. Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and His World. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1992. Cat. No. 112
Berman, Lawrence Michael and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, OH]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 553-555, cat. no. 498
Exhibition history

Egypt's Golden Age, the Art of Living in the New Kingdom, 1558-1085 B.C.,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (Feb. 3-May 2, 1982); Houston Museum of Natural Science, Texas (July 14-Sept. 19, 1982); The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD (Oct. 27, 1982-Jan. 2, 1983).

Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and His World. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 1-September 27, 1992); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (October 24, 1992-January 31, 1993); Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 75008 Paris, France (March 2-May 31, 1993).

Conserving the Past for the Future. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-May 6, 2001).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1920.1997