Vessel (Primary Title)
Unknown (Artist)
The use of red paint over a white slip became fashionable around 3500 BC, replacing polished red ware as the primary luxury ceramic. Vessels with scenes of daily life-here a boat with animals and plants-were particularly rare and valuable.
Pre-Dynastic Period (Gerzean or Nagada II Period)
Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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