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MS5407

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS5407
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture South Italian
Provenience Mediterranean
Manufacture Location South Italy
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Iconography Male Nude | Niche | Architecture
Description

Intact. Attenuated form with widely overhanging lip and very tall handles glued to wall. Pale buff clay. Covered with brownish-black glaze except on underside of foot. On one side a niche painted in white with yellow details. In it stands a nude male figure, legs crossed, right over left (?), wearing a wreath and carrying a second in left hand. In right he holds a curved object whose lower part rests on the floor. The niche has an Ionic column on each side a pediment with a central circular ornament, and three palmette acroteria.

Height 10.5 cm
Outside Diameter 10 cm
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Dillwyn Parrish, 1914
Other Number 214 - Collector Number

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