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| Object Number: | MS2251 |
| Current Location: | Collections storage |
| Culture: | Italic Etruscan |
| Provenience: | Italy |
| Date Made: | 1800 to 1900 |
| Early Date: | 1800 |
| Late Date: | 1900 |
| Section: | Mediterranean |
| Materials: | Ceramic |
| Technique: | Bucchero |
| Iconography: | Fish Female Head |
| Height: | 20cm |
| Length: | 29cm |
| Width: | 12.5cm |
| Credit Line: | Purchased from Davis & Harvey (Coleman Estate Sale); Subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 147 - Coleman Sale Number |
Description
19th century CE pastiche of 6th century BCE components; body like that of a fish with wings or fins; female head in rectangular plaque on front, large neck, mouth, and handle from a bucchero trefoil-mouth oinochoe. Fabric: dark grey core, fine-grained with flecks of mica around spout. Chipped rim, tail and handle. Technique: front section molded, rear and rim sections thrown. Lower panel molded separately, tooled, and attachd. Handle, wings, feet and tail handmade and attached. Carefully burnished.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| World Culture Day / Six Continents, One World: A Day of Archaeological Discovery / "What in the World" (22 Oct 1994 - 22 Oct 1994) | View Objects in Exhibition | |
| The Classical World: Italy ( Apr 1958 - 1969) | View Objects in Exhibition | |
| Italian Gallery (28 Mar 1951 - 1958) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Book] Wisseman, Sarah U. 1978. "Observations on the Techniques of Etruscan Bucchero Pesante: Selected Examples from the University Museum, Philadelphia". 7. 45-60. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 54-55, figs. 23-25 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation | |
| [Catalogue, Auction] 1897. The Robert H. Coleman Collection of Archaeological Objects. Catalogue. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: illus. after p. 16 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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