Faience bowl

Unknown

332–30 BCE · Faience · Greek and Roman Art

This bowl, preserved intact, is a fine example of Egyptian faience ware. The Egyptians mastered the production of this luxury ware as early as the late Predynastic period (late fourth millennium B.C.). Faience continued to be used for both sacred and secular objects into Hellenistic and Roman times.

Artist

Unknown

Date

332–30 BCE

Medium

Faience

Culture

Ptolemaic

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of Thomas Colville, 2016