bowl

large pottery bowl decorated with blue lotus flowers, there are red details and black outlines.The corolla encloses the lower half of the bowl while the border above consists of pendant petal-rays. The bowl imitates the form of the white lotus. Blue painted pottery seems to have been made only at royal residences and was therefore produced by a small number of master craftsmen at a few workshops. It was used in religious contexts, in tombs and also for decoration in the hom...e.

EL-`AMARNA/AKHETATEN
NEW KINGDOM: 18TH DYNASTY: AMENHOTEP IV/AMENOPHIS IV/NEFERKHEPERURE/AKHENATEN
Purchased as part of the collection of the Castle Museum, Norwich in 1956. The piece probably came from excavations carried out at Amarna by the Egypt Exploration Society during the 1928-29 season.
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Piotr Bienkowski and Angela Tooley., Gifts of The Nile: Ancient Egyptian Arts and Crafts in Liverpool Museum., 1995., 34; pl.40