Carlotta - the museum database

NM Ant 2029 :: vessel

Object description: Conical lid with stemmed, conical knob and flange on underside. Everted, offset rim; rounded biconical body; raised, flattened ring handle at mid-body; concave underside. Black fabric; poor sheen.

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Inventory number

NM Ant 2029

Serie nummer

1481

Object

vessel

Material

Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Keramik

Acquisition

Bequest of Mrs. Carolina Benedicks-Bruce, Visby, 1934, to the National Museum, Stockholm.

Description

Conical lid with stemmed, conical knob and flange on underside. Everted, offset rim; rounded biconical body; raised, flattened ring handle at mid-body; concave underside. Black fabric; poor sheen.

Period

Archaic (Etruscan)

Period, Swedish

Arkaisk (Etruskisk); 550-525 f.Kr. [?]

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

550-525 BC [?]

Name - Acquired from

Benedicks-Bruce, Carolina

Description: Carolina Maria Benedicks-Bruce (28 October 1856 – 16 February 1935) was a Swedish sculptor. After studies at the Academy of Arts in Sweden she went to France, at first to study and later to live and work at the artists' colony in Grez-sur-Loing where she met her husband William Blair Bruce. With him she returned to Sweden and together they created the artists estate Brucebo on Gotland, which was later established as a nature reserve. She also worked actively with the preservation of heritage buildings, women's right to vote and establishing the Swedish Women's Voluntary Defence Organization.
Source, Wikip. - is desc. by: en.wikipedia.org

Exhibition - Current

Study Gallery

Description: Upstairs, in interaction with the Baghdad Cafe, opened in February 2009, the upper gallery. A rich variety of objects retrieved from the museum's storerooms, many of them shown for the first time. A series of booths filled to the brim with beautiful vases functions as a traditional study collection of ancient ceramics. Other booths highlights the thematic elements of the ancient world: the subject of everyday and festive, and images of gods, humans and animals. (www.medelhavsmuseet.se, 2009-07-13, google translate).
Time - Start: 2009-022009-02

Exhibition, Part of - Current