Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Greek (South Italian, Apulia) Horse Rhyton, 399-300 BC Terracotta On loan from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA (MS2250) Text from the Virginia MFA museum label.

Goblet with Octopus Decoration  Unknown (Artist) Date: 13th century BC Culture: Mycenaean Category: Ceramics Containers-Vessels Medium: terracotta Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall (at handles): 6 1/2 × 8 3/8 in. (16.51 × 21.27 cm) Object Number: 60.26 The Mycenaeans, like the Minoans, painted a wide range of sea creatures on their pottery, especially octopuses. Over time Mycenaean artists produced ever simpler and more abstract depictions of octopuses. Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-161358053

Goblet with Octopus Decoration  Unknown (Artist) Date: 13th century BC Culture: Mycenaean Category: Ceramics Containers-Vessels Medium: terracotta Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall (at handles): 6 1/2 × 8 3/8 in. (16.51 × 21.27 cm) Object Number: 60.26 The Mycenaeans, like the Minoans, painted a wide range of sea creatures on their pottery, especially octopuses. Over time Mycenaean artists produced ever simpler and more abstract depictions of octopuses. Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-161358053

Flame-Palmette Finial for a Funerary Stele Unknown (Artist) Date: mid-4th century BC Culture: Greek (Attic) Category: Sculpture Medium: marble Collection: Ancient Art Geography: Attica, Greece Dimensions: Overall: 29 × 18 1/2 × 4 1/2 in. (73.66 × 46.99 × 11.43 cm) Object Number: 79.148 This style of the palmette became common in Athenian funerary art in the 4th century. The lower part of the stele (pillar) was decorated with a depiction of a loutophoros (a vessel used for water in wedding and funerary rituals), only the top of which survives. The inscription was carved freehand using letter forms typical of the mid-4th century. Additional Information  Inscription: Inscribed: Philoneios of Prosopalta Credit Line: Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Fund Published References: Mayo, Margaret Ellen, and Heather S. Russell. Ancient Art: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Richmond, VA: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1998. (pp. 58-59) Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-12954197

Flame-Palmette Finial for a Funerary Stele Unknown (Artist) Date: mid-4th century BC Culture: Greek (Attic) Category: Sculpture Medium: marble Collection: Ancient Art Geography: Attica, Greece Dimensions: Overall: 29 × 18 1/2 × 4 1/2 in. (73.66 × 46.99 × 11.43 cm) Object Number: 79.148 This style of the palmette became common in Athenian funerary art in the 4th century. The lower part of the stele (pillar) was decorated with a depiction of a loutophoros (a vessel used for water in wedding and funerary rituals), only the top of which survives. The inscription was carved freehand using letter forms typical of the mid-4th century. Additional Information  Inscription: Inscribed: Philoneios of Prosopalta Credit Line: Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Fund Published References: Mayo, Margaret Ellen, and Heather S. Russell. Ancient Art: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Richmond, VA: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1998. (pp. 58-59) Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-12954197

Greek (South Italian, Apulia) Horse Rhyton, 399-300 BC Terracotta On loan from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA (MS2250) Text from the Virginia MFA museum label.

Greek (South Italian, Apulia) Horse Rhyton, 399-300 BC Terracotta On loan from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA (MS2250) Text from the Virginia MFA museum label.

Female Figure (Primary Title) Unknown (Artist) Date: 3rd millenium B.C., ca. 2400 BC Culture: Cycladic Category: Sculpture Medium: marble Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall: 14 3/4 × 4 1/4 × 1 1/2 in. (37.47 × 10.8 × 3.81 cm) Object Number: 83.73 The eyes, hair, and jewelry on this figure were painted with blue and red pigments, traces of which are still visible. Typically the mouths of such figures were not shown. Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-62229041

Female Figure (Primary Title) Unknown (Artist) Date: 3rd millenium B.C., ca. 2400 BC Culture: Cycladic Category: Sculpture Medium: marble Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall: 14 3/4 × 4 1/4 × 1 1/2 in. (37.47 × 10.8 × 3.81 cm) Object Number: 83.73 The eyes, hair, and jewelry on this figure were painted with blue and red pigments, traces of which are still visible. Typically the mouths of such figures were not shown. Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-62229041

Stamnos Handle with Satyr Head Plates (Primary Title) Unknown (Artist) Date: 5th-4th century BC Culture: Etruscan Category: Metalwork Medium: bronze Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall: 6 1/4 × 5 5/8 × 2 1/2 in. (15.88 × 14.29 × 6.35 cm) Object Number: 82.202 This handle was probably attached to a stamnos (a type of storage vessel frequently used as a cinerary urn). Lance-shaped leaves are common on such handles, usually decorated (as here) with floral motifs and head of a silenus, one of the followers of Dionysos. Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-8119489

Stamnos Handle with Satyr Head Plates (Primary Title) Unknown (Artist) Date: 5th-4th century BC Culture: Etruscan Category: Metalwork Medium: bronze Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall: 6 1/4 × 5 5/8 × 2 1/2 in. (15.88 × 14.29 × 6.35 cm) Object Number: 82.202 This handle was probably attached to a stamnos (a type of storage vessel frequently used as a cinerary urn). Lance-shaped leaves are common on such handles, usually decorated (as here) with floral motifs and head of a silenus, one of the followers of Dionysos. Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-8119489

Wine Funnel with Strainer (Primary Title) Unknown (Artist) Date: 6th century BC Culture: Etruscan Category: Metalwork Medium: copper alloy Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall: 5 1/4 × 4 1/4 × 12 3/4 in. (13.34 × 10.8 × 32.39 cm) Object Number: 79.70 Ancient wines were not filtered, so strainers were essential kitchen implements. This elegant example Is one of a small group of bronzes produced in the 6th century that combine a colander with a funnel. Here functionality is wed to elegance in such details as the duck’s head handle. Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-8111630

Wine Funnel with Strainer (Primary Title) Unknown (Artist) Date: 6th century BC Culture: Etruscan Category: Metalwork Medium: copper alloy Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall: 5 1/4 × 4 1/4 × 12 3/4 in. (13.34 × 10.8 × 32.39 cm) Object Number: 79.70 Ancient wines were not filtered, so strainers were essential kitchen implements. This elegant example Is one of a small group of bronzes produced in the 6th century that combine a colander with a funnel. Here functionality is wed to elegance in such details as the duck’s head handle. Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-8111630

Plate with Scene of Doctors' Visit (Primary Title) Cornelius Pronk, Dutch, 1691 - 1759 (Designer) Date: 1735-40 Culture: Dutch Category: Ceramics Medium: Porcelain with famille rose enamels Collection: East Asian Art Dimensions: Overall: 1 7/8 × 9 3/4 in. (4.76 × 24.77 cm) Object Number: 72.34.2 Related Material: Pair with "Plate with Scene of Doctors' Visit" (72.34.1) In the mid-1730s, Cornilis Pronk of Amsterdam was commissioned by the Dutch East India Company to design a number of ceramics on the subject of life in China. To make this vessel, a white ceramic was produced in Jingdezhen, transferred to Guangzhou for painting, and then shipped to Europe. Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-8094449

Plate with Scene of Doctors' Visit (Primary Title) Cornelius Pronk, Dutch, 1691 - 1759 (Designer) Date: 1735-40 Culture: Dutch Category: Ceramics Medium: Porcelain with famille rose enamels Collection: East Asian Art Dimensions: Overall: 1 7/8 × 9 3/4 in. (4.76 × 24.77 cm) Object Number: 72.34.2 Related Material: Pair with "Plate with Scene of Doctors' Visit" (72.34.1) In the mid-1730s, Cornilis Pronk of Amsterdam was commissioned by the Dutch East India Company to design a number of ceramics on the subject of life in China. To make this vessel, a white ceramic was produced in Jingdezhen, transferred to Guangzhou for painting, and then shipped to Europe. Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-8094449

Vessel in the form of the God Bes (Primary Title) Unknown (Artist) Date: 650-550 BC Culture: Egyptian Category: Ceramics, Containers-Vessels Medium: faience Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall: 5 5/8 × 3 25/32 × 3 3/8 in. (14.29 × 9.6 × 8.57 cm) Object Number: 93.110 The animal-headed god Bes was a household deity who guided women and children through the perils of pregnancy, childbirth, and infancy. This Bes wears a leopard skin arranged around his neck, a feature that appeared during the Nubian rule of Egypt (Dynasty 25). This vessel once had a lid in the form of Bes’s tall feathered headdress. Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-8177537

Vessel in the form of the God Bes (Primary Title) Unknown (Artist) Date: 650-550 BC Culture: Egyptian Category: Ceramics, Containers-Vessels Medium: faience Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall: 5 5/8 × 3 25/32 × 3 3/8 in. (14.29 × 9.6 × 8.57 cm) Object Number: 93.110 The animal-headed god Bes was a household deity who guided women and children through the perils of pregnancy, childbirth, and infancy. This Bes wears a leopard skin arranged around his neck, a feature that appeared during the Nubian rule of Egypt (Dynasty 25). This vessel once had a lid in the form of Bes’s tall feathered headdress. Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-8177537

Boat Model (Primary Title) Unknown (Artist) Date: 2010 - 1961 BC Culture: Egyptian Category:Sculpture Medium: wood coated with plaster, painted Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall: 9 1/4 × 4 3/4 × 28 in. (23.495 × 12.065 × 71.12 cm) Object Number: 53.30.3 Miniatures showing scenes of daily life were often placed in tombs during the Middle Kingdom. The large number of boat models reflects the Nile’s importance in Egyptian life: the river was Egypt’s main road and main source of food (fish and waterfowl). Boats were also important in funerary rituals and myths. A burial usually included two or more boat models, at least one rigged for sailing (south, upstream on the Nile) and another for rowing (north, downstream). This model comes from the tomb of Djehuty-nakht, which contained fifty-five boat models, probably the largest group found in any Middle Kingdom tomb. Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-12951893