Grain Storage Jar with Blue-Painted Lotus Plants and Floral Collar
Description
Object Label: Vessels with Blue-Painted Designs The most innovative pottery of the Eighteenth Dynasty—so-called bluepainted ware—began under Thutmose III. The pastel pigment was made from groundup blue frit, a mixture of cobalt and alum. Initially, potters relied on blue paint to accentuate small details, such as the grape cluster hanging from a vine on the wine jar in this case. Over time, though, artists began to use blue paint for more complex designs and figures. Caption: Grain Storage Jar with Blue-Painted Lotus Plants and Floral Collar, ca. 1353–1329 B.C.E.. Clay, pigment, 27 9/16 × Diam. 15 5/8 in. (70 × 39.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.245. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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A photographed ceramic storage jar with a rounded body and narrow neck, decorated with painted horizontal bands and faint painted plant-like motifs in light blue/green pigment.
The image shows a complete (or near-complete) Egyptian ceramic jar: a broad ovoid body, a tapered/short neck, and a slightly everted rim. Across the neck and upper body are several horizontal painted bands forming a collar-like zone. On the jar’s main surface there are traces of light blue/green pigment arranged in curving, petal/leaf-like shapes that could correspond to lotus/vegetal decoration; the motifs are faint due to wear and abrasion. No clear legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or textual bands are visible. The overall surface shows cracking, flaking pigment, and age-related staining; decoration is restricted to paint, with no obvious applied relief.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.245 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3164 tier-2
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