Vase
CultureEgyptian
Date1st century C.E.
MediumFaience
DimensionsOverall: 8 1/4 × 6 1/2 inches (20.96 × 16.51 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number32-111
On View
On viewGallery Location
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Collections
Exhibition HistoryRelief-Ornamented Ceramics: An Historical Survey, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, Spring 1963, no. 6.
Egyptian Art under the Greeks and Romans: 332 B.C. to A.D. 330, University of Missouri-Columbia, Museum of Art and Archaeology, September 25–November 19, 1987.
This vase was probably from a tomb and may have even held a beverage for the deceased's spirit. The vessel's imagery and color express the deceased's hope for resurrection. The rich green plants were reborn each spring. The snakes-colored green like plants-regularly shed their old scales, and new skins miraculously appeared as though they were reborn.
With Hagop Kevorkian, New York, by July 1, 1932 [1];
Purchased from Kevorkian, through Langdon Warner, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.
NOTES:
[1] Nelson-Atkins Archives, RG01/01 Director's Office Records: Paul Gardner, 1932-53, Box 1, Folder 23, Kevorkian 1932-50.
Ross E. Taggart, “Relief-ornamented Ceramics: An Historic Survey,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum Bulletin) 4, no. 3 (1963): 8, 17.
Günter Grimm, “Two Early Imperial Faience Vessel from Egypt,” Miscellanea Wilbouriana 1 (Brooklyn, N.Y: Brooklyn Museum, 1972), 71, 74, fig. 2.
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