Dish

MS2418

From: Italy

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS2418
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Etruscan (uncertain) | Italic (uncertain)
Provenience Italy
Date Made 6th century BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique Bucchero
Iconography Sigla
Description

Black bucchero, completely reduced except for reddish buff core on foot. Made in three separate sections (foot, stand, dish) joined by crude application of heavy clay around seams, on inside. Base concave profile, sharpened and spreading; stand a hollow cylinder flaring toward top and having a molded swelling near base. Dish concave on top with extended thickened rim, pinched to be both standing and pendent. Floor of dish in two degrees. Hand-polished over all; vertically on stand, on wheel horizontally around all moldings and on floor.

Height 45.47 cm
Outside Diameter 14 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Davis & Harvey (Coleman Estate Sale); Subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number unknown - Coleman Sale Number

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