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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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