1media/img-9-small517.jpg2022-06-15T11:56:06-07:00Brooke Hendershottb0a907cd0f989ee79e94592378a1545647719cfb394474plain2022-11-13T15:46:11-08:00Grace Toshachdcf49a8866ed9fc88c3e8cd4d25880b73ad42fd8Ceramic bowls are easily portable objects and therefore were often common items that were traded within the extensive trading routes in the eastern Mediterranean. Especially, for our bowl that was made in the port city, Chersonese. In fact, many shipwrecks are dated back to the 12th and 13th century of ships harboring ceramic ware from these Byzantine areas. Imported ceramics similar in their technique and distinct outside slip-painting as our harpy bowl have been found in places like Constantinople, and Trebizond. It is unknown where this specific harpy bowl may have been exported to or if it was an exported bowl. It is possible that it could have been domestic and used by someone in Chersonese. Our harpy bowl was acquisitioned by Dumbarton Oaks in 1958 from the art dealer, George Zacos who sold many Byzantine artifacts from Turkey and Istanbul to museums like Dumbarton Oaks and the MET. It is not specified where Zacos recovered this specific bowl, but it was most likely in Turkey or Istanbul. Zacos sold this harpy bowl to Dumbarton Oaks in 1958. The bowl started in its home, Chersonese and somehow ended up in Turkey or Istanbul where George Zacos acquired it in about the 1950s. In 1958, Dumbarton Oaks bought the bowl from Zacos and the bowl was brought to its current home in Washington DC.
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1media/ObjectKingsand Caliphs.jpg2022-06-15T11:57:07-07:00Brooke Hendershottb0a907cd0f989ee79e94592378a1545647719cfbLate Byzantine Bowl with Harpy on Interior (DO BZ.1958.103)Grace Toshach21plain2022-11-20T08:17:47-08:0044.588935, 33.506707Grace Toshachdcf49a8866ed9fc88c3e8cd4d25880b73ad42fd8