Decorated Amphora with Ibex Head (before 1920 this is common era, not BCE): Art, History and Details

Decorated Amphora with Ibex Head (before 1920 this is common era, not BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

A splendid example of the decorated pottery known as "palace ware," made only in Dynasty XVIII. It is painted with garlands imitating the real flowers with which vessels were draped at banquets. This vase was found in the palace of Amenhotep III at southern Thebes.

Object facts

• Title: Decorated Amphora with Ibex Head
• Date: before 1920 this is common era, not BCE
• Culture: Egypt, Modern pastiche
• Type: Vessels
• Technique: marl clay ware
• Dimensions: Diameter: 21.2 cm (8 3/8 in.); Overall: 32.4 cm (12 3/4 in.)
• Collection: Egypt - Modern Forgery
• Department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
• Accession number: 1920.1997

Collection credit

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust

Further reading listed by the museum

• CMA, 2024
• Cooney, John D. “Some Antiquities from Thebes.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 52, no. 1 (January 1965): 2–6.
• Egypt's Golden Age, the Art of Living in the New Kingdom, 1558-1085 B.C.: Catalogue of the Exhibition. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1982.

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