The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Faience aryballos (perfume vase)

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Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron and Son

Seán Hemingway, curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art, discusses early twentieth-century reproductions of works from Sir Arthur Evans's historic excavations of Minoan Crete and Heinrich Schliemann's Mycenaean Greece.

This lecture was recorded on September 9, 2011, in conjunction with the exhibition Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son, on view May 17, 2011, through June 17, 2012.

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Faience aryballos (perfume vase)

Period:: Archaic
Date:: 6th century B.C.
Culture:: East Greek
Medium:: Faience
Dimensions:: H.: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm)
Classification:: Miscellaneous
Credit Line:: Fletcher Fund, 1933
Accession Number:: 33.11.1

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 152

References

Richter, Gisela M.A. 1934. "Two Faience Aryballoi." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 29(5): p. 81.
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What
Faience (11,698)

Aryballoi (112)
Where
Europe (148,587)

Greece (6,287)
When
1000 B.C.-A.D. 1 (23,148)
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Ancient Greece, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.