Collection place: Poggio Buco, Tuscany, Central Italy / Donor: Phoebe Apperson Hearst / Loans: S1957-1960 [XXX Wellington]: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (1957–1960) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

Start Over Collection place Poggio Buco, Tuscany, Central Italy Donor Phoebe Apperson Hearst Loans S1957-1960 [XXX Wellington]: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (1957–1960)

Hearst Museum object titled Amphora, accession number 8-1772, described as Flat handle amphora. Description from Matteucig (1951): Neck-amphora; height: 18.3 cm; diameter: 15 cm (see Matteucig's plate XV, 2). Brown impasto. Clay pale buff; very lustrous brown to gray surface. High neck; ovoid body, on low solid foot; flat vertical handles from lip to shoulder. On lower part of neck, four incised lines; from the bottom line hangs a band of interlaced semicircles with intervening spaces crossed by oblique lines. Lip badly chipped all around.

Hearst Museum object titled Aryballos, accession number 8-1795, described as Etrusco-Corinthian aryballos. Description from Matteucig (1951): Aryballos; height; 10 cm; diameter; 5 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 16). Italo-Corinthian. Clay pink cream; cream slip; light brown and violet paint. Pointed aryballos. On lip, three bands, outer ones brown, middle one, violet; edge of lip, brown; on flat handle, three brown bands; brown band at base of neck; on shoulder, tongue pattern; below this, a series of five alternating brown and violet bands, divided by reserved spaces; a reserved space; two narrow brown bands; another reserved space; point and foot solid brown; three incised lines above foot. Cf. Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., no. 40-4269.

Hearst Museum object titled Cup stand, accession number 8-1518, described as Cup stand with bulbs Description from Matteucig (1951): Pot stand; height: 28.5 cm; diameter: upper basin 14.5 cm; diameter: at foot 15.5 cm Pl. II, 14. Gray bucchero. Clay as in 8-1516–1517, with a few more impurities; surface not quite so well polished, varying from typical gray bucchero to dark brown. The shape is a combination of two cones set point to point with two intervening lobes. The upper basin is decorated with five horizontal incised lines. Three rows of semicircular vertical hooks support twenty loose rings; alternate hooks on the lower row have two legs, and carry no rings. A crude figure of a man standing “in an archway" is repeated four times in the open work of the lower part. About half of the upper basin and a small part of the foot are restored. Reproduced in Not. Sc., 1898, p. 447, fig. 9, center, from Poggio Buco.

Hearst Museum object titled Krater, accession number 8-1532, described as Another, redder, similar to 8-1531. Description from Matteucig (1951): Stamnoid Krater; height: 42.5 cm; diameter: 41.5 cm (see Matteucig's plate Ill, 2). Red impasto. Clay brick red, very coarse; dull brick-red surface, varying to light gray. Shape and decoration as in 8-1531, but somewhat better preserved.

Hearst Museum object titled Pitcher, accession number 8-1780, described as Yellow trefoil pitcher. Description from Matteucig (1951): Oinochoe; height: 25.5 cm; diameter: 19.5 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 1). Italo-Corinthian. Clay pale buff, well purified; light cream slip. Trefoil mouth; low neck; globular body on low solid foot; strap handle. No decoration; restored from three fragments.

Hearst Museum object titled Plate, accession number 8-1743, described as Etrusco-Corinthian plate. Attributed to the Rosoni Painter (ca. 580 BCE). Description from Matteucig (1951): Plate; height: 5.2 cm; diameter: 24.5 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIII, 18). Italo-Corinthian. Clay pale buff; cream slip; decoration in dark-brown and violet paint. Low plate with ring base; vertical lip, grooved below; at diametrically opposite sides, a small handle, made of a strip of clay which fits into the groove. In the center, four concentric circles; then an animal zone of panthers and ducks, divided by rosettes and other typical Corinthian fillings; lip brown. Under foot, a circle and two sets of diametrically opposite groups of four petals. Cf. Not. Sc., 1898, p. 442, fig. 7, from Poggio Buco. Perhaps Rosone style; see Beazley-Magi, p. 74, nos. 84,85.

Hearst Museum object titled Skyphos, accession number 8-1850, described as Etrusco-Corinthian skyphos; conic rim. Description from Matteucig (1951): Cup; height: 8.5 cm; diameter: 16.3 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 5). Italo-Corinthian. Clay pinkish cream; cream slip; dark brown and violet paint. Cup with offset rim, similar to 8-1789 and 8-1790. On rim, a line of brown dots between two narrow bands; a zone of alternating brown and reserved rectangles; an other line of dots between two narrow bands. On shoulder, a panel with two ducks going right; upper part of ducks' plumage, violet; wings with alternating brown and violet feathers; brown feathers have traces of a cream stripe; between ducks, a nine-petal rosette, with brown and violet petals; other typical filling ornaments. Below animal panel, a violet band; the rest, solid brown. Handles, solid brown; one broken off. Cf. Montelius, pi. 245, no. 5, from Orvieto; St. Etr., IX, 1935, PL V, i, from Heba; Albizzati, Pl. XIII, 139; Robinson, Toronto Vases, Pl. XIII, 185. Cf. Also our nos. 1789 and 1790, Pl. XVI, 13, 14.

Hearst Museum object titled Skyphos, accession number 8-1576, described as Protocorinthian geometric skyphos; put together from several fragments,, with some small pieces missing; clay white to pinkish buff; glaze fired red; inside glazed; exterior decoration linear: on rim, series of verticals and sigmatoids; on body, fine lines, tall base-rays; under foot, disk with two circles. Description from Matteucig (1951): Skyphos; height: 10 cm; diameter: 11.5 cm (see Matteucig's plate VI, 1). Protocorinthian Geometric. For a description of this vase cf. C.W.A., Univ. of California, fasc. 1, p. 12, Pl. III, 3. For other examples and Italic imitations, cf. Montelius, pl. 292, 11 from Tarquinia, and pl. 326, 8 from Falerii; Mon. Ant. XXII, 1913, Pl. L, 2, from Cumae; Not. Sc., 1893, p. 474, fig. 1, from Syracuse; Not. Sc., 1898, p. 447, fig. 9, from Poggio Buco; Not. Sc., 1902, p. 116, fig. 3, from Colonna (Latium); Bull. Com., 1896, Pl. V, 8, from Rome; Bull. Com., 1898, Pl. X, 1, from Rome; Röm. Mitt., XXII, 1907, p. 131, fig. 20, from the Regolini-Galassi tomb in Caere; Albizzati, fasc. I, Pl. I, 8, 11; C.V.A., Oxford, fasc. 2, III C, pl. 1, no. 30.