Object name: Trefoil oinochoe / Collection place: Italy / Collector: Alfred Emerson - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Trefoil oinochoe, accession number 8-1692, described as Oinocheo, trilobate mouth. Description from Matteucig (1951): Oinochoe; height: 22.5 cm; diameter: 15 cm (see Matteucig's plate X, 3). Italo-Geometric. Clay cream, well purified; heavy cream slip; dark brown paint. Trefoil mouth; high neck; rounded body on low ring foot; reed handle. Mouth solid brown; on neck, a wavy line between three straight bands; on shoulder, metopal arrangement of five vertical stripes alternating with one or two cross-hatched rhomboids set point to point; three more bands, then the typical Italo-Geometric design of broad interlocking verticals; below this, six more bands and a solid brown bottom; narrow stripes on handle. Cf. Mon. Ant., XXXVI, 1937, col. 170, fig. 35 from Tarquinia: not an exact parallel, but it shows relation of shape and decoration; Not. Sc., 1898, p. 443, fig. 8, from Poggio Buco; Not. Sc., 1930, p. 131, fig. 17, bottom; for the interlocking verticals see St. Etr., V, 1931, Pl. XXXII, 2 from Tarquinia.

Hearst Museum object titled Trefoil oinochoe, accession number 8-1651, described as Oinochoe, red, polygon neck. Description from Matteucig (1951): Oinochoe; height: 28.5 cm; diameter: 16.5 cm (see Matteucig's plate VII, 9). Red impasto. Clay light gray with whitish and black particles; highly polished red, red-brown surface. Trefoil mouth, high heptagonal neck tapering toward the top; spherical body with shallow vertical grooves from base of neck to conical hollow foot; vertical handle, round in section, with double base. At the bottom of flat sides of neck two linear and four solid triangles impressed and filled with lead; no decoration on the side behind the handle. Cf. Montelius, pi. 295, 9 from Corneto; Not. Sc., 1898, p. 443, fig. 8, from Poggio Buco.

Hearst Museum object titled Trefoil oinochoe, accession number 8-1876, described as Description from Matteucig (1951): Oinochoe; height: 31.5 cm; diameter: 18.2 cm. (see Matteucig's plate XX, 14). Heavy bucchero. Shape similar to 8-1875. On rotelle, a sixteen petal incised rosette, with central disk in relief; on strap handle, a supine naked man; on neck, three grooves; fillet at base of neck; on shoulder, godroons; below godroons, two relief bands intersected by herring-bone incisions; on body, five groups of two female figures facing left; the figure in front has outstretched forearms; the rear figure touches front figure's left elbow with left hand and right shoulder with right hand; incised details; groups divided by tongues in relief. Upper part of neck and mouth, restored; surface badly scratched.

Hearst Museum object titled Trefoil oinochoe, accession number 8-3817, described as Cuman geometric oinochoe; trefoil mouth, ovid body, ring foot; buff clay, glaze dark brown to black; some cracks in body, chips in mouth, on body and foot; linear decoration: mouth and uper part of neck glazed, two butterfly metopes on neck, flanked by groups of verticles, eight short strokes on front of neck, sigmatoids on shoulder, three broad glazed bands on body, one narrow band on foot, horizontal strokes on handle; H., 22.3; max body D., 14.6; D. of foot, 7cm

Hearst Museum object titled Trefoil oinochoe, accession number 8-1785, described as Etrusco-Corinthian trefoil oinochoe (pitcher). Description from Matteucig (1951): Oinochoe; height: 27 cm; diameter: 17.8 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 6). Italo-Corinthian. Clay pale cream; cream slip; dark brown, brown-red, and violet paint. Trefoil mouth; low neck; ovoid body on flat foot; high strap handle. Neck painted dark brown; on shoulder, three groups of dark brown petals (8, 11, 12 petals); below petals, a narrow brown-red band; then a very broad dark brown zone divided in the middle by a violet line; on broad zone, two bands of incised interlaced semicircles with cream dots in intervening spaces; below this, two narrow bands; one band on foot. Front part of spout restored.

Hearst Museum object titled Trefoil oinochoe, accession number 8-2165, described as Attic black-figure trefoil oinochoe; put together from many fragments, with slight amount of restoration in plaster; glaze thinly applied; simple rounded handle, disk foot; in panel on body, Departure of chariot: charioteer drives quadriga to right, guided by Hermes Psychopompos (Latin: Mercury); beyond horses, a woman bids farewell; in field branches with fruit.