MAKE A MEME View Large Image Avaric - Drinking Bowl - Walters 57565 - Profile.jpg This bowl is one of the finest pieces from a large treasure found in 1902 in a field at Vrap Albania The handle is decorated on the upper side in a casting technique known as chip-carving ...
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Keywords: Avaric - Drinking Bowl - Walters 57565 - Profile.jpg This bowl is one of the finest pieces from a large treasure found in 1902 in a field at Vrap Albania The handle is decorated on the upper side in a casting technique known as chip-carving in which the outlines are cut into the mold on a slant By contrast the designs of the handle's underside are engraved The sinuous patterns echo designs in Persian and Byzantine art The shape of the handle also shows eastern influence Two holes in the handle allow the bowl to be hung possibly from the trappings of a horse The Avars a confederation of nomadic tribes of Central Asian origin rose to power in eastern Europe in the 6th century Most of the Avar finds come from the area of their strongholds in Pannonia present-day Hungary This treasure appears to have been deposited in the middle Danube region in the grave of an Avaric Khagan king who reigned in the second half of the 7th century Later the grave was robbed and the treasure brought to the area of modern Albania The hoard consists of 46 objects including gold buckles strap-ends for belts and belt ornaments all but two of which this bowl and a goblet in the Archeological Museum Istanbul are in The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York inv 17 190 1673-1712 ca 700 Early Medieval gold cm 6 5 14 5 18 5 accession number 57 565 4523 Hector Economos Paris before 1917 by purchase in Triest Henri Daguerre Paris by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1927 Albania Treasures from the Land of the Skypetars Roemer- und Pelizaeus- Museum Hildesheim 1988 The Dark Ages Worcester Art Museum Worcester 1937 Early Christian and Byzantine Art Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1947 Russian Art Icons and Decorative Arts from the Origin to the Twentieth Century The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1959-1960 place of origin Constantinople present-day Istanbul Turkey Walters Art Museum license Bowls drinking vessels Eurasian Avars Gold objects Tiranë County Metal bowls Chip carving metal History of Albania Medieval metalwork in the Walters Art Museum
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