Not only is that a superb owl, it’s also a super bowl!
The Chosen One, at long last arrived…
Would make an excellent supper bowl.
Truly superb!
Kewl!
I wonder why the second handle? Symmetry or something else? It’s not very big.
Part of the design of a “skyphos”. Toledo Museum of Art has one with a similar design.
And from Wikipedia on skyphos
Skyphoi of the type called glaux (owl) have one horizontal and one vertical thumbhold handle.
How very fitting.
I also noticed that some had 2 horizontal handles while others had them going with one vertical.
It made me wonder if it was something deeper than a stylistic choice.
Found this article and it’s more or less the scientific way of saying: some guys are speculating but actually we don’t really know 😅 https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/essay/the-owls-of-athena-some-comments-on-owl-skyphoi-and-their-iconography/
“I dunno… maybe they thought it made it look like an owl this way? You like owls, so we made your owl cups vaguely shared like owls?”
I looked up some other Acropolis owls and I liked this little guy. This site has a neat 3D rotatable scan of it.
Maybe a “happy little accident” a la Bob Ross. And the artist thought exactly this 😆
The Acropolis find is cute. Maybe some soapstone and time… Just kidding.
Looking at various specimens of the cup, it looks like there were a lot of happy accidents. Some versions have some pretty funny eyeballs! 😁
It would be awesome to know how to sculpt or carve. The only thing I ever carved was a very minimal fish, though I do love it!
I’m making life sized standies of all 8 owls of Pennsylvania for the clinic open house, and that is proving enough of a challenge for me as it is!
