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NM Ant 2013 :: oinochoe

Object description: Beaked spout; slightly concave neck; rounded body, lower part concave; vertical band handle from rim to shoulder; flat base; concave underside. Reddish brown clay; black glaze. Neck and outside of handle black; reserved wave pattern on shoulder; below this five large palmette fans separated by lotus buds and dots; below a reserved band; underside reserved.

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Inventory number

NM Ant 2013

Serie nummer

1452

Object

oinochoe

Material

Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Keramik

Acquisition

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

Description

Beaked spout; slightly concave neck; rounded body, lower part concave; vertical band handle from rim to shoulder; flat base; concave underside. Reddish brown clay; black glaze. Neck and outside of handle black; reserved wave pattern on shoulder; below this five large palmette fans separated by lotus buds and dots; below a reserved band; underside reserved.

Period

Hellenistic (Etruscan)

Period, Swedish

Hellenistisk (Etruskisk); ca 300 f.Kr.

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

c. 300 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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