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Shallow dish with ring base, cut out edges, and floral and geometric motifs
Greek, East Greek
Archaic Period
580–560 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Miletus
Medium/Technique
Ceramic
Dimensions
Diameter: 32.6cm (12 13/16in.); height: 5.2 cm (2 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number99.507
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 292.
DescriptionFloral decoration: central floral medallion, around which run alternating slipped and reserved squares (with the latter containing dots). Main part of tondo contains single lotus buds (pointing outward) alternating with double lotus buds (pointing intward) combined with volutes. The outer edge of the tondo is ringed with alternating slipped and reserved squares (with the latter containing dots). Wide ledge rim is decorated with meander alternating with squares divided into four, containing four, slipped squares, with crosses and squares at the cut-out rim edge.
Shallow dish or plate. Ledge rim cut out on opposite sides like edge of Boiotian shield. Ring foot.
Milesian. Transitional style (Wild Goat Style/Fikellura).
Shallow dish or plate. Ledge rim cut out on opposite sides like edge of Boiotian shield. Ring foot.
Milesian. Transitional style (Wild Goat Style/Fikellura).
ProvenanceBy date unknown: W. H. Forman Collection; inherited from him by Mrs. Burt and then, about 1889, by A. H. Browne; by 1899: with Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 13 Wellington Street, Strand, London W.C., England, auction of the Forman Collection, June 19-22, lot 268 (probably from Rhodes); by 1899: with E. P. Warren; purchased by MFA from E. P. Warren, 1899, for $ 32,500.00 (this is the total price for MFA 99.338-99.542)