Floral Frieze
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
Although the use of glazed tiles and colored paste inlays is known from as early as the Old Kingdom, the apogee of their use came during the New Kingdom (Dynasties XVIIII–XX). An almost identical frieze of lotuses, other flowers, and grape clusters is known to have adorned a wall of a palace of Ramesses III at Tell el Yahudiya in lower (northern) Egypt.
Caption
Floral Frieze, ca 1187–1156 B.C.E.. Faience, 2 1/2 × 1 × 11 1/2 in. (6.4 × 2.5 × 29.2 cm) mounted: 5 × 14 × 1 1/4 in. (12.7 × 35.6 × 3.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 55.182a-i. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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Title
Floral Frieze
Date
ca 1187–1156 B.C.E.
Dynasty
Dynasty 20
Period
New Kingdom
Geography
Possible place made: Tell el-Yahudiya, Egypt
Medium
Faience
Classification
Dimensions
2 1/2 × 1 × 11 1/2 in. (6.4 × 2.5 × 29.2 cm) mounted: 5 × 14 × 1 1/4 in. (12.7 × 35.6 × 3.2 cm)
Credit Line
Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
Accession Number
55.182a-i
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