SHELL-SHAPED MARBLE BOWL
SHELL-SHAPED MARBLE BOWL
Cycladic art, Early Cycladic, 3rd millennium B.C.
An elegant, shallow, kidney-shaped bowl in the form of a shell, with a sinuous rim that curves inward.
With surface deposits and slight chips.
Dimensions: 18.5 x 11 x 2.5 cm
Provenance: Charles Gillet Collection (1879–1972), then passed down through the family
Bibliography: Thimme, Jürgen, and Getz-Gentle, Pat, *Art and Culture of the Cyclades in the Third Millennium B.C.*, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977, fig. 81, p. 100, and fig. 84, no. 14, p. 104
A Cycladic marble cup in the shape of a seashell,
Early Cycladic, 3rd millennium B.C.
SHELL-SHAPED MARBLE BOWL
Cycladic art, Early Cycladic, 3rd millennium B.C.
An elegant, shallow, kidney-shaped bowl in the form of a shell, with a sinuous rim that curves inward.
With surface deposits and slight chips.
Dimensions: 18.5 x 11 x 2.5 cm
Provenance: Charles Gillet Collection (1879–1972), then passed down through the family
Bibliography: Thimme, Jürgen, and Getz-Gentle, Pat, *Art and Culture of the Cyclades in the Third Millennium B.C.*, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977, fig. 81, p. 100, and fig. 84, no. 14, p. 104
A Cycladic marble cup in the shape of a seashell,
Early Cycladic, 3rd millennium B.C.
