Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1932 143 | |
Title: | BYZANTINE CHAMPLEVE BOWL | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1932 | |
Object Number: | 143 | |
Description: | Bowl flaring at ca. 45 degrees with slightly convex profile, tapered oblique lip. Interior: 2 grooves around floor medallion, 2 more below lip. | |
Decoration: | Champleve decoration: frieze of rabbits directed lt., with long ears tilted back, circle for eye, curling line for mouth, front legs bent back toward folded back legs; in field, long-stemmed ivy leaf between each rabbit, dots and blobs above. Green glaze fired to brownish with small bubbles over all but thinly applied to lower half of exterior.Possibly underlying white slip on interior and over upper part of exterior. | |
Material: | Buff clay with frequent fine voids, fewer small angular ones, frequent tiny black inclusions. | |
Munsell Color: | Slightly pinker than 10YR 7/4 | |
Condition: | Fragment. Four joining frgts., giving body just above foot to lip, 3/4 circumference; large chip in lip, part of glaze worn away. | |
Manufacture: | C70 | |
Dimensions Actual: | D00.217 (lip) | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H00.063 (true) | |
Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
Chronology: | Late 12th or early 13th c. | |
Area: | Oakley House west | |
Context: | Oakley House west, From Roman Bath west of Oakley House (now west of | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Bibliography: | Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 1756 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942 Monument: Oakley House west Image: bw 3133 Basket: Oakley House west, From Roman Bath west of Oakley House (now west of |