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Perfume vase (aryballos) with birds and rosettes

Greek
Protocorinthian Period
720–700 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Corinthia, Corinth

Medium/Technique Ceramic
Dimensions Height: 5.5 cm (2 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Bartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1900
Accession Number03.810
ClassificationsVessels

Catalogue Raisonné Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 391.
DescriptionNarrow lip, yellow clay, brown varnish, diamonds and rosettes: four birds walking to right: rosettes and zig-zags in field; rays.
ProvenanceBy 1903: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: The following objects [MFA 03.805-03.833, 03.836-03.837, 03.906] were found in one cemetery in Campania.); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, March 24, 1903