Bowl
ca. 1295–1185 B.C.E.
1 of 4
Object Label
The image on one of these bowls depicts a monkey playing a double flute. Representations of animals engaged in human activities occur throughout Egyptian history. The other bowl shows a female figure and flowering plants. This motif may be borrowed from scenes on the walls of painted tombs.
Caption
Bowl, ca. 1295–1185 B.C.E.. Faience, 1 1/2 × Diam. 4 1/4 in. (3.8 × 10.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 34.1182. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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Could you tell me how faience was made?
Faience is a man-made mixture of "ground quartz or quartz-sand held together by and alkaline binder. The bright and shiny surface seen on this figurine is a result of glazing. The glaze was made of a form of powdered glass mixed with a liquid and applied either with a brush or by dipping the entire figurine.It gets it's blue color from copper that is mixed into or applied to the surface of the quartz body before firing.
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