Plate

MS2284

From: Italy | Etruria | Cortona

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS2284
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Italy | Etruria | Cortona
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique Bucchero
Iconography Sigla
Description

Impasto plate with central boss. Ring foot, straight flaring wall. Horizontal rim with two grooves. There is a small siglum on the undersurface of the foot, in the form of an isosceles triangle with a diagonal line through it.

Surface dull, flaking black dust. Wheel marks visible on exterior and underside of foot.

Height 5.4 cm
Width 26.35 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Davis & Harvey (Coleman Estate Sale); Subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897

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