Kylix

MS2397

From: Italy | Etruria | Chiusi

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS2397
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Campanian | South Italian
Provenience Italy | Etruria | Chiusi
Manufacture Location Campania
Date Made 4th century BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique Black Glaze
Description

Base and stem a series of stepped moldings. Shallow bowl. Kylix handles, evidently somewhat recurved. Impressed decoration beneath the glaze on center of floor, from center out: a pair of wheel-run lines; a circle of alternate palmettes and buds connected by short curved strokes; two bands of fine rouletting. All very delicate work. Mended from fragments; missing; part of rim, most of one handle and outer end of the other. Unglazed: inside of stem ave for wheel-glazed bands and line; and resting surface. Otherwise covered with high quality blue-black glaze.

Height 0.065 cm
Thickness 0 cm
Outside Diameter 16.2 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Davis & Harvey (Coleman Estate Sale); Subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897

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