Stand

Object Number:

MS2500

Current Location:

Etruscan Italy Gallery

Culture:

Etruscan

Provenience:

Italy
Etruria
Orvieto

Date Made:

599-500BC

Early Date:

-599

Late Date:

-500

Section:

Mediterranean

Materials:

Ceramic

Technique:

Bucchero

Description:

Bucchero "fruitstand"; partially thrown and tooled. Semi-cylindrical body on high foot with flared base; four female heads at corners. Rim grooved and incised. Four tear-shaped cut outs separated by vertical grooves on each side of the body. Foot and base grooved. Fabric: dark grey core, flecks mica (?). Glossy black surface. Top of foot and large body section restored in plaster, painted black. Holes bored probably in antiquity on either side of a break in original portion. Body hand-modeled and tooled; foot-thrown and hollowed out by trimming. Burnished.

Height:

19.8cm

Length:

18.7cm

Width:

11.8cm

Outside Diamater:

10.2cm

Other Number:

814

Stevenson Etruscan Series Number

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Etruscan World (15 Mar 2003)

Bibliography:

[Catalogue] Turfa, Jean M. 2005. Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. : Page/Fig./Plate: 203