Description
This bowl has a square pool at the center with tilapia fish as well as lotus buds and blossoms. All of these elements refer to resurrection and regeneration.
Conservation
Date
Description
Narrative
9/17/1975
Treatment
cleaned
Exhibitions
Faience: The Colors of the Heavens. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2003-2004.
Daily Magic in Ancient Egypt. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2006-2007.
Provenance
Rev. William MacGregor, Tamworth, Staffordshire, by 1898; Sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, June 26-29 and July 4-6, 1922, no. 253; Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, 1922, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
