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Reproduction of a rounded cup

Emile Gilliéron 

Period:
Middle Minoan IIA
Date:
ca. 1900-1800 B.C.
Culture:
Minoan
Medium:
painted plaster; Kamares Ware
Dimensions:
H.: 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm) Diam.: 5 7/8 in. (14.9 cm)
Credit Line:
Dodge Fund, 1917
Accession Number:
18.28.6

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  • Description

    Excavated 1902 in the South-West Room of the Royal Pottery Stores, Knossos.

    Missing fragments of the rim, side and most of the base are indicated in this restoration of an "Egg-shell ware" polychrome-decorated cup, the finest pottery ever made on Minoan Crete. The decoration is carefully reproduced but the exceptional thinness of the original pottery is not achieved.

    The original is in the Herakleion Archaeological Museum, Crete.

  • References

    Richter, Gisela M.A. 1918. "Cretan Reproductions." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 13(4): p. 88.

    MacGillivray, J.A. 1998. Knossos Pottery Groups of the Old Palace Period. Vol. 5. London: British School at Athens Studies, 151, no. 618, pl. 103.

    Mackenzie, D. 1903. "The Pottery of Knossos." The Journal of Hellenic Studies 23:157, pl. V, 2.

    Richter, G.M.A. 1918. "Cretan Reproductions." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 13:88.

    Evans, A.J. 1921. Palace of Minos at Knossos. Vol. 1. London: Macmillan and Co., 241, pl. II, c.

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