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Bowl with Lotus Bud Decoration

1–200 CE

Egypt, Greco-Roman period

(332 BCE–395 CE), Roman empire (30 BCE–395 CE)
bright turquoise blue faience
Diameter: 10.6 cm (4 3/16 in.); Diameter of mouth: 9.4 cm (3 11/16 in.); Overall: 5.8 cm (2 5/16 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1985.183
Location: 107 Egyptian
  • Purchased from Mr. Gawain McKinley
  • Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1985.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 73, no. 2 (February 1986): 26–71. Mentioned: p. 62, no. 5 www.jstor.org
    Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999 Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 491
  • Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 10-July 5, 1998); Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, RI (August 25, 1998-January 3, 1999).
    The Cleveland Museum of Art (5/10/98 - 7/5/98); Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (8/25/98 - 1/3/99). "Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience," not in exh. cat.
    Geschenk des Nils, no. 338 (entry by Hermann Schlögel); CMA, 12 February- 6 April 1986, The Year in Review for 1985, cat.: CMA Bulletin 73, no. 2 (February 1986), no. 5
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