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Flask
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ClassificationsAncient Near Eastern Art

Flask

Place FoundAsia
Place CreatedCyprus, Asia
PeriodLate Bronze Age
Date1600-1200 BCE
MediumClay
Credit LineGift of Victor Della Fera
Dimensions5 1/2 in. (14 cm)
Object number1985.014.006
Label TextMany of the Cypriot imports, like this flask, were painted with a distinctive "base-ring-ware" brown-on-white decoration. Imported pottery seems to have satisfied local tastes for fine tableware perhaps because the quality of Levantine pottery was in decline.
Exhibition HistorySelected Acquisitions: Asia to America, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, May 8 - August 8, 1987
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - Spring 2001
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, October 6, 2001 - February 12, 2018
ProvenanceEx coll. Victor J. Della Fera (1917-1993), East Hartford, Connecticut, acquired from Intercontinental Antiquity Corporation, San Rafael, California.
Status
Not on view
Collections
  • Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art