Carlotta - the museum database

NM Ant 1286 :: kantharos

Object description: Everted rim; offset, concave upper wall, lower wall angular and convex; raised vertical band handles with concave profile from rim to angle between upper and lower wall; tall, hollow, cylindrical stem; disc base. Yellowish red clay; black glaze. Fillet at mid-stem. Underside reserved.

Data elements

Inventory number

NM Ant 1286

Serie nummer

1412

Object

kantharos

Material

Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Keramik

Acquisition

Deposited in 1887 by the Technical School, Stockholm, in the National Museum.

Description

Everted rim; offset, concave upper wall, lower wall angular and convex; raised vertical band handles with concave profile from rim to angle between upper and lower wall; tall, hollow, cylindrical stem; disc base. Yellowish red clay; black glaze. Fillet at mid-stem. Underside reserved.

Period

Classical

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

5th century BC

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