Collection place: Poggio Buco, Tuscany, Central Italy / Loans: S1977-1978 #22: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (January 4, 1978–July 14, 1978) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Balsamary, accession number 8-1864, described as Corinthian or East Greek (?) balsam flask. Description from Matteucig (1951): Plastic vase; height: 8.5 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 14). Italo-Corinthian. Clay pale buff; cream slip; dark brown dots all over the surface, except on the head of the baby monkey, which is violet. Vase in the shape of a monkey (head missing) sitting and holding baby. Feet of mother monkey also broken off. Cf. Albizzati, Pl. IX, 123; C.W.A., Louvre, fasc. 8, III C, c,pl. 7, no. 10.

Hearst Museum object titled Balsamary, accession number 8-1865, described as Etrusco-Corinthian balsam flask, shape of a deer. Description from Matteucig (1951): x35. Plastic vase (8/1865); height: 5.2 cm; Length, 8.5 cm; (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 15). Italo-Corinthian. Clay pale cream; cream slip; brown paint. Vase in the form of a lodged deer; the head, which must have served as a plug to the vase, is missing. Brown dots all over the surface. Cf. Mon. Ant., XXXIV, 1931–1932, col. 361, fig. 28, from Populonia; also, op. cit., Pl. XV, 16; Not. Sc., 1924, Pl. X, a; Not. Sc., 1934, p. 364, fig. 18, from Populonia; Albizzati, Pl. IX, 116; Mingazzini, Pl. XXX, 4; C.W.A., Sèvres, fasc. 1, pl. 14; no. 21; C.V.A., Louvre, fasc. 8, III C, c, pl. 6, nos. 13, 16; C. V.A., Copenhagen, fasc. 2, pl. 81, no. 12; C.W.A., Scheurleer, fasc. 1, III C, pl. 1, no. 8.

Hearst Museum object titled Plastic lekythos, accession number 8-1796, described as East Greek (probably Rhodian) plastic lekythos in form of bust of young girl; orifice broken off; pinkish-buff clay; no slip; details in brownish black paint; figure wears earrings and chiton. Description from Matteucig (1951): Plastic Lekythos; height; 10.2 cm; depth 5.5 cm; width, 6.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 17). “Gorgoneion" fabric. Bust of a young man. Clay, pinkish buff; some mica particles. No slip. Sheen on surface is the result of thin wash of glaze; where applied as dark paint, the glaze, which varies from brownish to black according to thickness, is not very lustrous. Orifice broken off. For a more detailed description and excellent illustrations of this piece see Professor H. R. W. Smith's account in C.W.A., University of California, fasc. 1, p. 55 and Pl. LVII, 1a–d. For the “Gorgoneion” group of East Greek plastic vases, cf. Maximova, pp. 174–175 and Pls. XXII-XXV, especially Pl. XXIV, 95a-b; C.W.A., France, fasc. 10, Bibl. Nat., fasc. 2, pl. 93, 9–12; C.V.A., Copenhagen Mus. Nat., fasc. 2, pl. 81, 1; Albizzati, pl. 9, 112; E. R. Price, East Greek Pottery, p. 37 ff.: C.W.A., Oxford, fasc. 2, p. 85, pl. 7. British Museum no. 47.86.36, is perhaps the closest parallel to our specimen. For a full-length figure of this fabric, see H. Stuart Jones, The Sculptures of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Oxford, 1926, p. 197, pl. 76, no. 20: this piece was reviewed by Professor J. D. Beazley inJ.H.S., XLVII, 1927, p. 146 and dated to the end of the seventh century.