Pot Stand

MS923

From: Italy | Etruria | Narce

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS923
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Faliscan | Etruscan
Provenience Italy | Etruria | Narce
Locus Tomb 109F
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Pottery; mended and foot restored. Fabric of medium fine texture, black at core, reddish on outer surface. Handmade. Exterior of vase, interior of foot and upper surface of rim covered with cream slip over which designs are painted in red: edge of rim short transverse lines; in 4 grooves of upper surface of rim 4 bands; exterior surface of bowl and foot horizontal bands; within foot a zigzag. Concave portion of upper surface is painted solid red, without underlying slip; color is quite like that of the painted stripes and different from underlying clay. Two string holes.

Height 10.6 cm
Outside Diameter 18.5 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Giuseppe Ficola, 1896
Other Number 540 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number

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