Wine Jar Showing Grapevine
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: Wine Jar Showing Grapevine, ca. 1479–1425 B.C.E.. Clay, pigment, 18 1/4 x Diam. 8 3/4 in. (46.3 x 22.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 07.447.447. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
An ancient Egyptian pottery vessel with decorative patterns.
This artifact is an elongated pottery vessel with a narrow neck and a wider body, featuring decorative painted patterns in horizontal bands. The composition includes geometric motifs and animal forms, typical of ancient Egyptian ceramics. The piece is fragmented with visible cracks, indicative of age and restoration.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 07.447.447 tier-2
- BKM-Object 4211 tier-2
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
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