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Vase in the form of a pomegranate
Greek
Late Geometric II Period
735–700 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic
Dimensions
Height: 6 cm (2 3/8 in.); diameter: 5.3 cm (2 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1900
Accession Number03.772
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 280.
DescriptionMain zone: file of water-fowl to right.
Pomegranate-shaped with small stem perforated for suspension. No opening into vase.
Pomegranate-shaped with small stem perforated for suspension. No opening into vase.
ProvenanceBy 1903: with Edward Perry Warren ([one of a group of eleven Dipylon vases 03.772-03.782] according to Warren's records: Bt. in Paris. All the Dipylon vases were said to have been found together, and were certainly found in Athens. [Also in Warren's records is the following note]: "I had seen them in a garden in Athens." J.M. [John Marshall]); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, March 24,1903