Ewer, Signed by Ibn Yazid

 

 

 

 

Ewer, Signed by Ibn Yazid
 

• Date: 688/689 or 783/784 or 882/883
• Geography: Made in Iraq
• Medium: Copper alloy,cast
• Dimensions: 25 11/16 x 12 11/16 x 18 9/16 in.,22.707lb.
• (65.2 x 32.2 x 47.2 cm, 10.3 kg)
• Classification: Metalwork
• Credit Line: Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi
• This artwork is part of Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition

 

     This metal ewer is made in Byzantium and Islam era (lateeighth or ninth century date) because of the ewer’s heavy form and the facet on the ewer’s body.  It is a daily object, but it turns into a graceful artwork. It is little hard to see, but you can find some arabesques(that we learned from Islamic Art ) in Kufic around the rim. It gives an identifies about whose artwork it is. At this point, I would like to borrow a quotation from Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Blessing to he who fashionaed it, Ibn Yazid, part of what was made at Barsa in the year sixty-nine.”  The vessel  is composed of a pear-shaped body, long neck, high-flaring foot and a palmette-shaped handle, and those are related to post-Sasanian metal work.  I love this artwork. How sophisticated!  It is also have a nice flow on the ewer’s body. A grip is specially impressive to me. The bottom part of a handle looks like a dove(bird)in flight. The part of top  looks like a leaf, but it also seems still connected to the dove. So it seems the dove finally spreads her wings briskly. I think this ewer represents the juice of life. That means water is essential for life. Maybe the design on ewer expresses what it is in inside. This art piece make me  give full play to my imagination.

 

 

*Reference: Metropolitan Meseum of Art *

http://metmuseum.org/exhibitions/view?exhibitionId=%7B60853040-AE7E-4162-8FA7-525505D6B633%7D&oid=478981&pg=22&rpp=10&pos=218&ft=*

Pair Statue of Nebsen and Nebet-ta

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                  Pair Statue of Nebsen and Nebet-ta. Egypt,

            possibly from Dahamsha. New Kingdom, Dynasty 18,

          early in the reign of Amunhotep III, circa 1400–1352

          B.C.E.Limestone, painted, 15 3/4 x 8 9/16 x 9 1/4 in

          Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 40.523

 

     I would to share this lovely pair statue of Nebsen and Nebet-ta. This artwork is different than other artworks of ancient Egypt. Generally, king statues of ancient Egypt were very serious and dignfied, but look at this lovely couple! They put their arm around each other's waist. Looks like they love and respect each other. I have never seen this kind(seems equally respectable) of statue in my ancient culture. That is why I choose this art piece. Also, this statue was actually rebuilt by their son when the son became successful because something happened to the original statue. Egyptians thought the statue was a rest place for a soul. Interesting! Alright! Let's look at this in detail.

Richard Fazzini: This statue of Nebsen and Nebet-ta is a wonderful pair statue of a couple. He was a scribe of the royal treasury, and she was a songstress of the goddess Isis, which means she had a clerical function in the temple to the goddess Isis. These people lived in the earlier part of the 18th Dynasty. But their statue was actually made a couple of reigns later, and so their appearance is very different from what they would have had in life. They have fancier headdresses, fancier necklaces, and much more elegant eyes and fancy eyeliner, all of which was coming into Egyptian art in the 18th Dynasty, as the empire got wealthier and wealthier and a little bit more sophisticated. The whole back of the statue is covered with inscriptions, and there are symbols up at the top. Those symbols are protective for the people mentioned below, Nebsen and Nebet-ta. Such statues were placed in temples, and, hopefully some of the people coming into the temple would stop and read an inscription or say a prayer on behalf of Nebsen and Nebet-ta. And that as certainly why their son dedicated the statue. So it was a way to help keep his parents alive forever—as well as bringing them a little bit more up to date in their makeup and costume.

• Medium: Limestone, painted
• Possible Place Collected: Dahamsha, Esypt      
• Dates: ca. 1400-1352 B.C.E.
• Dynasty: XVIII Dynasty
• Period: New Kingdom
• Dimensions: 15 7/8 x 8 9/16 x 9 1/4 in.(40.4 x 21.8 x 23.5cm)
• Collections: Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

 

Hear is a video clip!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jQlqQ_fDYko

New Start

 

The end my summer

but

Greet my new days at DTCC

 

 

 

 

 

Such a long summer vacation(but also short in some ways) is over.

I have started my school.

The first day of school always makes me tremble with joy and fear.

However, I will choose the way to be in the joy.

 

"New Start"

 

8.27.2013