Bottle Depicting Women in a Ritual Dance

Description Bottles of this type were frequently decorated with images of women engaged in ritual activities. Encircling the vessel are women holding wreaths in a festival dance. In the lower section, a woman bears a "kanoun," or ritual basket, on her head.

Provenance Joseph Brummer; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1925