Dish

Pot Stand

MS1367

From: Italy | Etruria | Chiusi

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS1367
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Italy | Etruria | Chiusi
Locus Tomb 2
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique Bucchero
Description

Gray bucchero stemmed dish. High, hollow stemmed foot with trumpet base. The base is decorated with a horizontal groove, while the stem has a thin ridge below a thicker bulging ring. Convex body opening into a shallow bowl with a raised horizontal rim. The vertical overhanging lip has two grooves around its exterior, and three female head appliqués with daedalic features. The heads are rectangular at the bottom and rounded at the top.

Surface quite encrusted, contains mica inclusions. Several large cracks running through the body.

Height 14.92 cm
Width 17.78 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1897
Other Number 766 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number

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