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Rare 'Eggshell-thin' Painted Pottery Bowls from Petra
Circa 1st Century AD
Description: Fine 'eggshell thin' Nabatean pottery bowl from ancient Petra. Decorated centrally with a banded dot and ‘hand’ motif bordered with two wide-spaced concentric wreath patterns. Nabatean pottery is increasingly scarce on the market. Nabatean pottery was made from extremely fine clay making it extremely thin and light, but quite durable. Its tactile properties make it one of the most desirable types of ancient potter from the Near East.
Height: 7.25 in. in diameter (18.5 cm)
Condition: Professionally repaired from large fragments with some restoration.
Provenance: Formerly a British property.
Reference: See The Year One: Art of the Ancient World East and West (Metropolitan Museum, 2000), p 110, for a similar example.
Background: The Nabatean civilization was a client kingdom of Rome that emerged as a great merchant-trader kingdom with trade routes from Asia, Europe and Rome crossing through its capitol of Petra. Nabatea lies in present day Jordan and at its height extended across Syria, northern Arabia, and the Sinai and Negev deserts. It was one of the few client kingdoms to remain independent of the Roman Empire.
Price: SOLD
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