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Description : dynasty xviii, 1550-1307 b.c. Turquoise blue in color with black glaze, the exterior of the hemispherical bowl decorated as if to simulate an open lotus blossom, the interior with a central rectangular pond from which lotus blossoms emerge, flanked by two pairs of tilapia fish nibbling on the lotus flowers 6.15/16 in. (17.6 cm) in diameter NOTES For a similar bowl see no. 139 in Brovarski, et al., Egypt's Golden Age: The Art of Living in the New Kingdom 1558-1085. According to Lacovara (in Friedman, et al., Gifts of the Nile, Ancient Egyptian Faience, p. 211), the decoration "represents rebirth and resurrection. The closing and opening of the lotus during the diurnal cycle of night and day indicated the renewal of life. The tilapia, which guards its young in its mouth, might have seemed to have been a case of spontaneous regeneration, and as such was another powerful image signifying eternal life.".
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