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Hearst Museum object titled Pitcher, accession number 8-1741, described as Corinthian trefoil oinochoe (pitcher). Description from Matteucig (1951): Oinochoe; height: 25.8 cm; height, to top of handle: 29.3 cm; diameter: 20.5 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIII, 17). Italo-Corinthian. Clay light buff, well purified; cream slip; dark brown and violet paint. Oinochoe with trefoil mouth, low neck, and squat body as in Robinson, Toronto Vases, Pl. XV, 207. Decoration as in Albizzati, fasc. II, Pl. XVI, 155. Decoration very faint; paint peeling off.

Hearst Museum object titled Pitcher, accession number 8-1862, described as Etrusco-Corinthian oinochoe (pitcher). Description from Matteucig (1951): Olpe; height: 22 cm; diameter: 12 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 17). Italo-Corinthian. Clay, slip, paint, and shape as in no. 8-1861. Decoration practically the same, but above foot, instead of the tongue pattern, there is a narrow brown band. Many cracks on vase; surface badly scratched; paint peeling off. Cf. Not. Sc., 1896, p. 275, fig. 13, from Poggio Buco; another parallel from Poggio Buco in the Museo Archeologico, Florence.

Hearst Museum object titled Pitcher, accession number 8-1787, described as Etrusco-Corinthian pitcher, white; better preserved, similar to 8-1785. Attributed to the Vulci Painter. Description from Matteucig (1951): Olpe; height: 33 cm; diameter: 16 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 9). Italo-Corinthian. Clay, paint, shape, and decoration exactly as in no. 8-1786. Vase somewhat better preserved.

Hearst Museum object titled Pitcher, accession number 8-1786, described as Etrusco-Corinthian oinochoe (pitcher), pink painted red, similar to 8-1785. Attributed to the Vulci Painter. Description from Matteucig (1951): Olpe; height: 33.5 cm; diameter: 16.5 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 8). Italo-Corinthian. Clay pale buff; cream slip; brown-red paint. Round mouth with flaring lip; high neck with fillet at base; pyriform body on low solid foot; strap handle and rotelle. Entire vase, including about 4 cm inside mouth, except for the part under the handle and the reserved space between rays at the bottom, is painted brown red. On râtelle, a cross in cream paint; on neck, three dot rosettes; dots on fillet; on shoulder, just below fillet, incised tongue patterns; every fourth tongue has a cream stripe; the two end tongues, about 4 cm from the handle, are decorated with a vertical incised zigzag; on either side of handle, a cream painted scroll; tongue pattern between two cream bands. On the middle, between two other cream bands, four incised lotus palmettes with alternate petals filled by cream blots. Below this, a band of incised double semicircles, interlaced, with intervening spaces filled by cream dots; rising from the foot, a ray pattern. Paint badly faded or peeled off. Cf. Albizzati, PI. XVI, 179; Sieveking-Hackl, PI. XXVII, 634, 635 a; Langlotz, PL CCXXV, 777, a, b, c, d,; C.V.A., Copenhagen, fase. 2, pi. 95, no. 11; four exact parallels in the Museo Archeologico, Florence

Hearst Museum object titled Pitcher, accession number 8-1874, described as Corinthian shape pitcher. Description from Matteucig (1951): Oinochoe; height: 29.5 cm; height to top of handle: 34 cm; diameter: 20.3 cm (see Matteucig's plate XX, 8). Italo-Corinthian. Clay light cream almost white. Shape and decoration like that of the vase in the University Museum, Philadelphia, reproduced in St. Etr., X, 1936, Pl. II, 4. About one-third of mouth chipped off; body restored from several fragments with much filling in gray cement. Another exact replica from Poggio Buco in the Museo Archeologico, Florence.

Hearst Museum object titled Pitcher, accession number 8-1861, described as Etrusco-Corinthian pitcher. Description from Matteucig (1951): Olpe; height: 20.5 cm; diameter: 12.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 16). Italo-Corinthian. Clay light cream, almost white; cream slip; dark brown, violet, and gray paint. Round mouth with two small flat protuberances on either side of strap handle; low neck with fillet on base; pyriform body on flat foot. Inside mouth, for about 2 cm, brown band; neck, solid brown; on shoulder, a reserved panel with three groups of seven tongues; on either side of handle a cream cross; another cross in gray paint inside the mouth; below shoulder panel, broad violet and brown bands divided by narrow gray lines; two bands of double incised, interlaced, semicircles, with cream dots filling the intervening spaces; above foot, three groups of six tongues. Vase restored from several fragments. Cf. Montelius, pl. 209, fig. 17; J.d.I., XV, 1900, p. 187, fig. 29, no. 5, from Poggio Buco; Gsell, Pl. II, 2; Sieveking-Hackl, Pl. XXVII, 630; C.W.A., Belgium, fasc. 2, III C b, pl. 1, fig. 3.