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Fragment of a Mold for a Bowl with Relief Decoration
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Fragment of a terracotta mold for making red-gloss ware bowls with relief decoration. The designs are stamped into the negative mold. Below an egg-and-dart pattern, the surface is subdivided by beaded lines. A semicircular wreath or garland is visible on the left; on the right is a winged female figure in a belted and flounced dress, standing frontally with the weight on her left leg and her head turned right. Holding a palm branch in one hand and a (laurel?) wreath in the other, she represents Victory. To her left runs the stamp of the mold maker Cinnamus: CINNAM[I]. The clay is relatively coarse, with a gray core and significant mica.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Louis-Gabriel Bellon (1819-1899) Saint-Nicolas-les-Arras France and descendants sold; [through auctioneer Jack-Philippe Ruellan Vannes France April 4 2009] to Charles Ede Limited London; sold: to Harvard Art Museums 2011.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Marian H. Phinney Fund
Title: Fragment of a Mold for a Bowl with Relief Decoration
Description:
Fragment of a terracotta mold for making red-gloss ware bowls with relief decoration.
The designs are stamped into the negative mold.
Below an egg-and-dart pattern, the surface is subdivided by beaded lines.
A semicircular wreath or garland is visible on the left; on the right is a winged female figure in a belted and flounced dress, standing frontally with the weight on her left leg and her head turned right.
Holding a palm branch in one hand and a (laurel?) wreath in the other, she represents Victory.
To her left runs the stamp of the mold maker Cinnamus: CINNAM[I].
The clay is relatively coarse, with a gray core and significant mica.
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