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NM Ant 2005 :: skyphos

Object description: Everted rim; deep body with heavy wall; thick, bell shaped handles below rim; wide ring base. Pink clay; black glaze. Dotted egg-pattern on rim; on both sides of body two male figures, the one to the right wearing a himation and the one to the left naked, holding a large object; on one side a blobby rosette as filling ornament; on both sides the figures are flanked by spiralling tendrils; palmettes beneath handles; black band on inner side of base; two narrow bands on underside.

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Inventory number

NM Ant 2005

Serie nummer

1494

Object

skyphos

Country - Origin

Italy : Europe

Country, Swedish - Origin

Italien

Exhibition, Part of - Current

Study Gallery - Showcase 14:10.

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

Material

Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Keramik

Acquisition

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

Description

Everted rim; deep body with heavy wall; thick, bell shaped handles below rim; wide ring base. Pink clay; black glaze. Dotted egg-pattern on rim; on both sides of body two male figures, the one to the right wearing a himation and the one to the left naked, holding a large object; on one side a blobby rosette as filling ornament; on both sides the figures are flanked by spiralling tendrils; palmettes beneath handles; black band on inner side of base; two narrow bands on underside.

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

4th century 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

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