Conical Vessel with Lug Handles
Technical Details
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Title
Conical Vessel with Lug Handles -
Author
Art of Early Dynastic Egypt -
Year
2920 B.C. - 2575 B.C. -
Dimensions
h. cm 21,5 - d. 32,5 -
Inventory
7473 -
Room
51
The archaeological section, which includes pieces datable between 4000 B.C. and the fifth century A.D., reflects the peculiarities of Vitali’s collecting, very attentive to the quality of individual pieces but far from the rigidity of academic classifications, more interested in an emotional and passionate approach to the works than in philological documentation. What interested Vitali was the possibility of discerning within an ancient work assonances with contemporary sensibility; he appreciated, therefore, artifacts executed in the most diverse materials and belonging to different eras and areas, united by a very high quality and an extraordinary evocative capacity.
The alabastrine calcite (flowering alabaster) vase is worked by drill and chisel.
