Object Number | MS2281 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Campanian (uncertain) | South Italian |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Manufacture Location | Campania (uncertain) |
Date Made | 399-300BC |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Ceramic |
Technique | Black Glaze | Impressed | Rouletted |
Iconography | Palmettes |
Description | Base and stem a series of stepped moldings. Shallow bowl. Lip only slightly articulated, concave in profile. Handles approach horse-shoe shaped in plan, attached nearly horizontally to lip. Impressed beneath glaze on center of floor, from center out: a pair of wheel-run lines; a circle of 8 outline palmettes; a broad band of rouletting. Restored from fragments; complete save for a small piece of bowl. Unglazed: resting surface, a narrow band at bottom of stem inside; top of stem inside except for a glazed circle. Otherwise covered with good quality blue-black glaze. |
Height | 6.5 cm |
Outside Diameter | 14.5 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Davis & Harvey (Coleman Estate Sale); Subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
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