Alabastron
date: label: Date
content: 1st half 6th century B.C
notes: label: Description
content: Ovoid vessel with everted, slightly concave mouth on slender neck with ring as a connection point for string, allowing object to hang from hook. Surface decorated with band and lines at base, quatrefoil palmettes on front with dots and blob rosettes. Bird on back with different sized blob rosettes and dots.
place: label: made in
content: Corinth, Greece
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, William A. Clark Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2018-50-56
objectType: label: Type
content: ceramics
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Alabastron
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Terracotta with painted decoration
label: Dimensions
content: H x diam.: 20.3 × 10.2 cm (8 × 4 in.)