<em>Bowl with Lotus Design</em>, ca. 1479–1400 B.C.E. Faience, 1 1/4 × Diam. 4 1/8 in. (3.2 × 10.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 14.610. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.14.610_NegID_L1007_14_print_bw.jpg)

Bowl with Lotus Design, ca. 1479–1400 B.C.E. Faience, 1 1/4 × Diam. 4 1/8 in. (3.2 × 10.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 14.610. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.14.610_NegID_L1007_14_print_bw.jpg)

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Bowl with Lotus Design

Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

On View: Egyptian Orientation Gallery, 3rd Floor

MEDIUM Faience

Place Excavated: Sawama, Egypt

DATES ca. 1479–1400 B.C.E.

DYNASTY Dynasty 18

PERIOD New Kingdom

DIMENSIONS 1 1/4 × Diam. 4 1/8 in. (3.2 × 10.5 cm) (show scale)

COLLECTIONS Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

ACCESSION NUMBER 14.610

CREDIT LINE Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund

CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Small blue glazed faience dish with interior decorated with 4 lotus blossoms. Underside decorated with one expanded lotus. Condition: Assembled from many fragments. Missing portions filled in. Glaze considerably worn.

EXHIBITIONS

MUSEUM LOCATION This item is on view in Egyptian Orientation Gallery, 3rd Floor

CAPTION Bowl with Lotus Design, ca. 1479–1400 B.C.E. Faience, 1 1/4 × Diam. 4 1/8 in. (3.2 × 10.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 14.610. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.14.610_NegID_L1007_14_print_bw.jpg)

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