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Ancient Pottery Fragments

A collection of historical terracotta and pottery pieces featuring various designs and textures, evoking ancient cultures.

Abdominal fragment of stoneware Bartmann jug, also called Bellarmine jug, with cartouche, in which cross, beardmug tableware holder soil find ceramic stoneware glaze salt glaze, hand turned stamped glazed glazed fried belly fragment of stoneware Bartmann jug with cartouche In the cartouche cross with like sides or burgundy brazier surrounded by cranes with ornamental decoration. Turning locks on the inside archeology Rotterdam City center Stadsdriehoek Oostplein underground pit foreign pottery import drinking wine beer transporting storage serving serving table Soil discovery Rotterdam underground pit Oostplein from big waste day 1976.
Abdominal fragment of stoneware Bartmann jug, also called Bellarmine jug, with cartouche, in which cross, beardmug tableware holder soil find ceramic stoneware glaze salt glaze, hand turned stamped glazed glazed fried belly fragment of stoneware Bartmann jug with cartouche In the cartouche cross with like sides or burgundy brazier surrounded by cranes with ornamental decoration. Turning locks on the inside archeology Rotterdam City center Stadsdriehoek Oostplein underground pit foreign pottery import drinking wine beer transporting storage serving serving table Soil discovery Rotterdam underground pit Oostplein from big waste day 1976.
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Anonymous, fragment (common name). White terracotta based on kaolin. Cernuschi Museum, Asia Museum of Asia in the city of Paris.. Fragment of a bottom of a bowl or small bin decorated on white gray soil with a large bird in purple grained, between tendrils. The head is missing. Reddish shard. The fragment is found in Cairo.Fragments 9th century. Fragments 447662Ostracon 400-30 B.C. Late Period-Ptolemaic Period. Ostracon. 400-30 B.C.. Pottery, ink. Late Period-Ptolemaic Period. From Egypt, Western Desert; Kharga Oasis, Hibis, MMA excavations, 1908-10Fragment 14th-15th century. Fragment 445530Luster Ware Fragment 15th century. Luster Ware Fragment 446396Fragment of a Jar 9th-10th century. Fragment of a Jar 450281Abdominal fragment of stoneware Bartmann jug, also called Bellarmine jug, with cartouche, in which cross, beardmug tableware holder soil find ceramic stoneware glaze salt glaze, hand turned stamped glazed glazed fried belly fragment of stoneware Bartmann jug with cartouche In the cartouche cross with like sides or burgundy brazier surrounded by cranes with ornamental decoration. Turning locks on the inside archeology Rotterdam City center Stadsdriehoek Oostplein underground pit foreign pottery import drinking wine beer transporting storage serving serving table Soil discovery Rotterdam underground pit Oostplein from big waste day 1976.Fragment of a terracotta vase. Culture: Greek, Attic. Dimensions: greatest width 4 1/16in. (10.3cm). Date: ca. 630-620 B.C..During the second half of the seventh century B.C. Athenian vase painters adopted the black-figure technique, which had been developed earlier at Corinth, as well as a taste for animal subjects that predominated on Corinthian vases. This large head of a lion owes much to the Corinthian tradition, both in technique and in drawing style. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Fragment 14th-15th century. Fragment 445150Ceramic Fragment. Iran, 14th century. Ceramics. Lajvardina (fritware, overglaze-painted and leaf-gilded)Fragment 14th century. Fragment 448195Shard ca. 4th-5th century Pakistan. Shard 50850Fragment 13th-14th century. Fragment 445446Raised relief fragment 664-610 B.C. Late Period, Saite see 23.3.468. Raised relief fragment. 664-610 B.C.. Limestone. Late Period, Saite. From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Tomb of Nespekashuty (TT 312, MMA 509), Undetermined, MMA excavations, 1922-23. Dynasty 26Fragment 14th century. Fragment 445570Red brass horseshoe, decorated with engraved horse, batter ground find copper metal, w 2.6 whipped engraved Copper fittings decorated with an engraved horse standing on sketched surface. Small hole high in the middle archeology Rotterdam rail tunnel indigenous product leather decorate finery fittings Soil discovery: rail tunnel Rotterdam.India, Mewar, ½ Paisa, Umard, B.R. (XIX 1st half of the 20th century)Fragment of a Jar 9th century. Fragment of a Jar 450099Stone vessel fragment ca. 3rd-7th century A.D. Sasanian (). Stone vessel fragment 322661Terracotta vessel fragment with incised decoration. Culture: Cretan. Dimensions: Overall: 1 15/16 x 1 11/16in. (4.9 x 4.3cm). Date: ca. 3600-3100 B.C..From Knossos, CreteGray ware, decorated with incised lines. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Costume Ornament. Culture: Peru; central coast (). Dimensions: Overall: 1 5/8 in. (4.13 cm). Date: 11th-12th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Hearing stone with men's head and the letters V i in Lauwerkrans, c. 1575 - c. 1625 Hearing stone with men's head and the letters V i in Lauwerkrans, placed in profiled window. A double -headed eagle in the half windows on the sides. The half windows on the top and bottom are filled with half medallions with star motif. Southern Netherlands earthenware Hearing stone with men's head and the letters V i in Lauwerkrans, placed in profiled window. A double -headed eagle in the half windows on the sides. The half windows on the top and bottom are filled with half medallions with star motif. Southern Netherlands earthenwarePlaque fragment ca. 9th century B.C. Iran. Plaque fragment 325749Fragment of a Bowl 13th-14th century. Fragment of a Bowl 447136Vessel fragment ca. 1390-1353 B.C. New Kingdom. Vessel fragment. ca. 1390-1353 B.C.. Pottery, paint. New Kingdom. From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Malqata, Palace of Amenhotep III. Dynasty 18Appliqué for a funeral couch. UnknownFragment 14th-15th century. Fragment 445386Plaque or Ornament 9th-10th century The dot-in-circle motif recalls designs presumed to be of magical significance, most likely an abstract eye to ward off the evil-eye, which serves an apotropaic function. Easily reproduced with a tool and visible in many cultures and times, this symbol may have lost its meaning, and become simply a decorative pattern, or may have one that we have not yet discovered.. Plaque or Ornament 450858Ax Blade (Celt) 1500-500 B.C. India. Ax Blade (Celt) 50623Fragment 13th century Crusader. Fragment 475341Fragment of a Bowl 12th-13th century. Fragment of a Bowl 447216Terracotta vessel fragment (probably from a krater) with bird ca. 1400-1300 B.C. Mycenaean From MycenaeFragment with bird.. Terracotta vessel fragment (probably from a krater) with bird 248284Fragment of a terracotta architectural tile. Culture: Lydian. Dimensions: Overall: 3 7/8 x 3 9/16 in. (9.8 x 9 cm). Date: 6th century B.C..The inscribed sign may have indicated the placement of the piece. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Fragment 13th century Crusader. Fragment 475360Terracotta fragment of a bell-krater (deep bowl) second half of the fourth century B.C. Etruscan Below the rim, a band of laurel; at the far left, bit of the hair, forehead, right eyebrow, eye, nose and mouth of a figure to right; head and upper torso of a draped woman to left, wearing a sakkos in her hair, with an earring and necklace; in front of and behind the woman's head, circular filling ornaments;at the far right, large palmette. Terracotta fragment of a bell-krater (deep bowl). Etruscan. second half of the fourth century B.C.. Terracotta; Praxian technique. Classical. VasesFragment 8th-9th century. Fragment 448758Sherds ca. mid-7th millennium B.C. Samarra. Sherds 329631Belt Plate 7th century Frankish or Burgundian. Belt Plate 465057 Frankish or Burgundian, Belt Plate, 7th century, Iron, silver inlay, Overall: 4 3/16 x 2 1/4 x 1/4 in. (10.7 x 5.7 x 0.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 (17.191.340)Empty wooden cutting board on gray textured concrete background Empty wooden cutting board on gray textured concrete background. Cutlery, preparation for dinner Copyright: xZoonar.com/TetianaxChernykovax 21909271Magical Figure ca. 1802-1550 B.C. Late Middle Kingdom-Second Intermediate Period These tablets of unfired clay with attached crude faces were found as a group by the Museum's excavators at Lisht South in loose surface sand west of the mastaba of Senwosretankh, a high official and possibly the architect of the pyramid complex of Senwosret I (ca. 1961-1917 B. C.), east of which he erected his own very elaborate mastaba tomb (see acc. nos. 33.1.2 and other pieces). The mud figures and little coffin (acc. no. 33.1.66) that had contained some of them must have been buried, however, considerably later than the early twelfth dynasty tomb close to which they were found. In fact, during the thirteenth and following dynasties people deposited a number of objects in the by then sacred area around a legendary ruler's pyramid and its dependant monuments, believing conceivably that potent magical powers could thus be released. These flat mud figures, for instance, are inscribed in now much-faded redVase fragment Minoan. Vase fragment 247838Bottom fragment Werra plate, mirror decor with running bird and year 1607, pale yellow and green glaze, plate crockery holder earth discovery ceramic earthenware glaze, Red earthenware with drawing in light yellow and green glaze year glazed: 1607 archeologyCounter Plate of a Belt Buckle 7th century Frankish. Counter Plate of a Belt Buckle 465588 Frankish, Counter Plate of a Belt Buckle, 7th century, Iron, silver and brass inlay, Overall: 2 1/16 x 1 1/16 x 3/8 in. (5.3 x 2.7 x 1 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 (17.193.262)Glass Fragment 17th century South Netherlandish. Glass Fragment. South Netherlandish. 17th century. Glass-Vitrail. Glass-StainedFragment silk tissue. Fragment, composed of 3 pieces of light brown silk glued to each other. Between the spindle-ramp cube tires with more or less circular connections between the ovals.Fragment 14th-15th century. Fragment 445528Fragment of a Wall Painting late 8th-early 9th century Colored with blue, yellow, black and traces of red, this fragment from a wall painting was excavated from the mound at Nishapur known as Sabz Pushan (the Green Covered). The excavations at Sabz Pushan revealed part of a residential neighborhood dating to the tenth century. This and several similar fragments were found deposited in the bottom of a well dug into the floor of what was likely a domestic unit after having been chipped off a wall and discarded, so their original location is not known. Several are now housed in the Metropolitan Museum, and include 38.40.267, 38.40.269, 38.40.270, 38.40.271.. Fragment of a Wall Painting. late 8th-early 9th century. Stucco; painted. Excavated in Iran, Nishapur. StuccoFragment 14th-15th century. Fragment 445580Vase fragment first half of the 2nd century A.D. Roman, Gaul Male figure and horses. Stamped: BVTRIO.. Vase fragment. Roman, Gaul. first half of the 2nd century A.D.. Terracotta, red gloss sigillata. VasesSeal Impression with Crocodile. Egypt, Middle Kingdom or Second Intermediate Period (1991 - 1600 BCE). Tools and Equipment; seals. Semi-baked clay of black scorched colorwaist area from a statue of the king ca. 1353-1336 B.C. New Kingdom, Amarna Period. waist area from a statue of the king 561680Misa - fragment; Unknown Nubian workshop; XI-XII century (1000-00-00-1100-00-00);Fragment of a Bowl 12th-13th century. Fragment of a Bowl 447211Fragment of a Vase 9th century This object was excavated at Nishapur.Nishapur was a vital city in the early and middle Islamic periods, located along one of the main trajectories that connected Iran and West Asia Islamic lands with Central Asia and China. These itineraries are often referred to by the term Silk routes but were in fact crucial to the movement of constellations of materials and objects, as well as people and ideas. The diverse population of Nishapur and its surroundings, from the better-researched elite groups of merchants, land-owning aristocracy, and literates, to the less-known artisans, farmers, miners, and servants, were instrumental in adapting global cultural trends to create their own distinctive visual languages. This is seen in the material remains of everyday life in medieval Nishapur - from pots and pans to lighting devices, inkwells, textiles and trimmings, jewelry, games and toys, talismanic devices, weapons, coins, and architectural fragments.Nishapur lostOstrakon. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 3 9/16 x 4 9/16 in. (9.1 x 11.6 cm). Date: 7th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Gaming Piece. Syria, 10th-11th century. Bone, carved, and drilledFragment 14th century. Fragment 454746Shard: Head of Figure ca. 4th-5th century Pakistan. Shard: Head of Figure 51271Sherd ca. early to mid-3rd millennium B.C. Indus. Sherd 324719Fragment of a Dish 14th-15th century. Fragment of a Dish 446526Fragment of a Mosaic Glass Vessel. Unknown 1st century A.D.Fragment 14th-15th century. Fragment 445546Fragment of a Bowl 14th-15th century. Fragment of a Bowl. 14th-15th century. Earthenware; slip-painted under transparent glaze. Attributed to Egypt. CeramicsMagical Figure ca. 1802-1550 B.C. Late Middle Kingdom-Second Intermediate Period These tablets of unfired clay with attached crude faces were found as a group by the Museum's excavators at Lisht South in loose surface sand west of the mastaba of Senwosretankh, a high official and possibly the architect of the pyramid complex of Senwosret I (ca. 1961-1917 B. C.), east of which he erected his own very elaborate mastaba tomb (see acc. nos. 33.1.2 and other pieces). The mud figures and little coffin (acc. no. 33.1.66) that had contained some of them must have been buried, however, considerably later than the early twelfth dynasty tomb close to which they were found. In fact, during the thirteenth and following dynasties people deposited a number of objects in the by then sacred area around a legendary ruler's pyramid and its dependant monuments, believing conceivably that potent magical powers could thus be released. These flat mud figures, for instance, are inscribed in now much-faded redBrass tongue with simple linear decoration and D-shaped, articulated clasp, buckle fastener component ground find copper metal, archeology Rotterdam City Triangle Botersloot Binnenrotte Soil Fate collapse Binnenrotte backside Botersloot (savings bank) from medieval layer.Fragment of an Inlay 100 BCE-100 CE Mediterranean Region. In ancient Rome, there was a high demand for colorful glass that could dazzle banquet guests alongside the expensive silver and gold serving wares meant to impress. Fragments like this one would have once been a part of larger mosaic dishes. The mosaic pattern was made by sagging molten glass into bowl-shaped molds, a technique used on many of these fragments is similar to millefiori, ìthousand flowersî in Italian, a modern glass-making method in which tiny rods of colored glass are bundled together, wrapped in a sheet of glass, fused, and then thinly sliced to reveal swirls of a flower-like patterns. They were arranged side by side, sometimes together with bits of colored glass, and fused together with heat.. Glass, mosaic technique . Ancient MediterraneanVase fragment ca. 4000-3000 B.C. Neolithic, Thessaly. Vase fragment 253217 Neolithic, Thessaly, Vase fragment, ca. 40003000 B.C., Terracotta, length 2 3/4in. (6.9cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Anonymous Gift, 1930 (30.119.12)Fragment Werra plate, mirror decor flowers, thistles, Deep green glaze, edge decor voluten, plate crockery holder soil find ceramic earthenware glaze, total, Red earthenware with drawing in green glaze archeologyspecimen of Shale mineral stone isolated macro shooting of specimen natural rock - specimen of Shale mineral stone isolated on white background Copyright: xZoonar.com/ValeryxVoennyyx 8555266Fragment 14th century. Fragment. 14th century. Stonepaste; white slip; blue and black underglaze; transparent, colorless glaze. Attributed to Syria. Found Egypt, Kush. CeramicsTerracotta rim fragment with linear motifs ca. 2300-2100 B.C. Minoan From Gournia, CreteRim fragment with triangles.. Terracotta rim fragment with linear motifs 247851Painted Terracotta Tiles 700 B.C.Bird Plaque Ornament 3rd century B.C.-A.D. 2nd century Vicús. Bird Plaque Ornament 315400Fragment 8th-9th century. Fragment 448886Tile, marsh scene ca. 1353-1336 B.C. New Kingdom, Amarna Period. Tile, marsh scene 571920Bowl Fragment 100 BCE-100 CE Roman Empire. In ancient Rome, there was a high demand for colorful glass that could dazzle banquet guests alongside the expensive silver and gold serving wares meant to impress. Fragments like this one would have once been a part of larger mosaic dishes. The mosaic pattern was made by sagging molten glass into bowl-shaped molds, a technique used on many of these fragments is similar to millefiori, ìthousand flowersî in Italian, a modern glass-making method in which tiny rods of colored glass are bundled together, wrapped in a sheet of glass, fused, and then thinly sliced to reveal swirls of a flower-like patterns. They were arranged side by side, sometimes together with bits of colored glass, and fused together with heat.. Glass, mosaic glass technique . Ancient RomanFragment majolica plate, blue on white, stylized floral pattern or rosette on mirror, zigzag edge, plate dish crockery holder earth discovery ceramics pottery glaze, archeology Rotterdam decorate food Bottomvondst Rotterdam 1941.Fragment of a Bowl late 9th-10th century. Fragment of a Bowl 451505Tunic Fragments with Scattered Design 6th-8th centuryBalustrade newel post ca. 1353-1336 B.C. New Kingdom, Amarna Period. Balustrade newel post 549868Mesheft with engraved representations of Peter and Virtue, has knife cutlery soil find copper brass tin metal, forged cast hammered riveted engraved Fragment of iron knife with handle executed in tin and brass Lifts fully engraved In the brass part at the end of it raises dog and man with cap On the pewter part man with big key in his hand reverse naked woman Probably respectively: Peter and Virtue archeology Rotterdam railroad tunnel serving food teaching religion bible Peter Virtue Soil discovery: landfill rail tunnel Rotterdam.Vase fragment Greek, Laconian ca. 600-550 BCE View more. Vase fragment. Greek, Laconian. ca. 600-550 BCE. Terracotta. Archaic. VasesFragment Unknown. Fragment 452508Backplate of a Belt Buckle 6th-7th century Frankish. Backplate of a Belt Buckle. Frankish. 6th-7th century. Iron with silver and copper alloy inlays. Metalwork-IronLamella. UnknownVase fragment East Greek/Sardis, Lydian. Vase fragment 252746 East Greek/Sardis, Lydian, Vase fragment, Terracotta, Overall: 2 x 1 7/8in. (5.1 x 4.7cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of The American Society for the Excavation of Sardis, 1926 (26.199.179)Inlay. Dimensions: 0.87 x 2 in. (2.21 x 5.08 cm). Date: ca. 1780-1580 B.C.. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Tissue with ornamental strip, anonymous, c. 600 - c. 799 Ocher-colored woolen tissue fragment with woven ornamental strip in dark brown wool, with natural linen decoration of stylized leaf and floral motifs. Left and right an edge with hooks. Egypt Ketting an element: Wool. Entry: Linen (Material) tapestry Ocher-colored woolen tissue fragment with woven ornamental strip in dark brown wool, with natural linen decoration of stylized leaf and floral motifs. Left and right an edge with hooks. Egypt Ketting an element: Wool. Entry: Linen (Material) tapestryVase fragment East Greek/Sardis, Lydian. Vase fragment 252733 East Greek/Sardis, Lydian, Vase fragment, Terracotta, Overall: 2 x 1 1/4in. (5.1 x 3.2cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of The American Society for the Excavation of Sardis, 1926 (26.199.166)Mouw van een strook naaldkant met voluten en pioenrozen.Sleeve of natural needle side: Brussels mesh edge. Something tapered rectangular model with a sloping side, composed of different parts that are put together with a light pink lining of unprocessed machine tulle. The needle lace pattern of flower branches and asymmetrical C-voluten on a fine soil with single-turned meshes: a mesh side soil, strewn with moes. Full work made with feston stitches with nuances where the denser filling is made with dust stitches (a feston stitch variant). Relief contours of widespread wire bundles (Cordonnets). Many scented rings and connected circles with different flowers in ornamental sign decorate the side. The slot along the bottom edge are formed by connected lying c-volutes with smaller or larger flowers underneath.Fragments, Medium: silk, cotton, metallic thread Technique: plain weave with supplementary weft, Tan (originally orange) ground with a design of single flower stems with leaves and bud brocaded in blue, green, and black silk and silver metallic thread., Turkey, 19th century, woven textiles, FragmentsDish Fragment 11th-12th century. Dish Fragment 446472Vase fragment East Greek/Sardis, Lydian. Vase fragment 252734 East Greek/Sardis, Lydian, Vase fragment, Terracotta, Overall: 7 x 4 3/8in. (17.8 x 11.1cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of The American Society for the Excavation of Sardis, 1926 (26.199.167)Fragment (Italy); silk, metal wrapped linenShield. Mexico, Mixtec-Puebla, 1200-1400. Wood. Wood and shellFragment of a Dish. Dimensions: H. 5.1cm (2 in), w. 4.7 cm (1 7/8 in). Dynasty: Dynasty 18. Reign: reign of Amenhotep III. Date: ca. 1390-1353 B.C.. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Plaque 700 BCE-500 BCE China. Jade .Mold with Title of an Official. Egypt, New Kingdom - Late Period (1569 - 343 BCE). Tools and Equipment; molds. TerracottaTerracotta fragment of a lekanis (dish) 4th century B.C. Etruscan Below the rim, vertical zig zags. Terracotta fragment of a lekanis (dish). Etruscan. 4th century B.C.. Terracotta; red-figure. Classical. Vases