Dish

Description

Dish in thin pale blue faience in the form of a hemi-cylinder divided internally by thin walls to form five compartments, decorated with black lines depicting plants, with a pig in a circle at each end: Ancient Egyptian, Middle Kingdom

Museum reference

A.1951.292

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Dish

Production information

Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

Middle Kingdom

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Collection place(s)

Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Rea, James

Exhibitions

• Egyptian Gallery, 2003 - 2008 (2003 - 2008)
  Royal Scottish Museum

• Ancient Egypt (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience (10 May 1998 - 25 Apr 1999)
  The Cleveland Museum of Art
  Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
  Kimbell Art Museum

References

R. S. Bianchi, in F. D. Friedman (ed.), Gifts of the Nile. Ancient Egyptian Faience, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, (Providence: 1998), pp. 218 (no. 93).