Greece, Hellenistic Period, ca. late 3rd to 1st century BCE. A redware pottery bowl with a deep red color and molded motifs of a many-petaled flower around the exterior base. Size: 3.55" W x 2.1" H (9 cm x 5.3 cm)

Megarian style pottery, being mold-made rather than thrown on a wheel, allowed artisans to produce bowls with intricate designs that we believe are in imitation of more expensive metal bowls. They were made to be owned by people aspiring to wealth, or least an appearance of it. Bowls like this one were used as drinking cups, replacing the kantharos.

Provenance: Ex- Collection of James Farmer, Maryland, collected from major galleries and auction houses between 1995 and 2005

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#120309

Small chip to rim and surface deposits; tiny, handwritten accession number from former owner on rim.