Object class: Containers (receptacles) / Collector: Riccardo Mancinelli Scotti - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Cup with handle, accession number 8-1510, described as Cup w. spectacle handle. Description from Matteucig (1951): Bowl; height: 6 cm; height, to top of handle, 10.5 cm; diameter: 16 cm. (see Matteucig's plate II, 6). Brown impasto. Clay reddish brown with usual impurities; glossy brown surface; inside, red. Low straight lip; shoulder breaking off sharply against body and neck; low flat foot. Horizontal moulding between lip and shoulder line; over neck and shoulder, three small vertical ribs decorated with tocchi di punta (small incisions produced by a pointed instrument). Vertical double handle, with tocchi di punta on the inside. Small part of lip restored; vase patched together from several pieces; lime incrustations. Cf. Mon. Ant., XXX, 1925, col. 639, fig. 28, from Saturnia, and Mon. Ant., IV, 1894, col. 192, fig. 76, from Narce. The shape is an example of the impasto bowls, with or without handles, common in Etruria proper, in the Faliscan territory, and in the early settlement of the Roman Forum.

Hearst Museum object titled Cup with handles, accession number 8-1513, described as Gray cup w. 2 handles. Description from Matteucig (1951): Kantharos; height: 7 cm; height to top of handles, 11 cm; diameter: 15.8 cm; diameter: between handles, 11.5 cm (see Matteucig's plate II, 9). Gray impasto. Clay grayish with many impurities; dark gray polished surface, varying to brown. Low, slightly flaring lip; horizontal moulding joining lip to shoulder; low angular body contracting to flat bottom. Bands of "twisted wire" impressed above, and below moulding. High vertical handles rounded above, flattening out to triangular ribbons at point of contact with rim and body; triangular part of handles decorated with incised triangles filled with lead; other incisions filled with lead on upper and inner sides of handles. Halfway between handles, on shoulder, a small knob in an incised triangle. Between knobs and handles, traces of vertical plaques of lead symmetrically arranged (two between each knob and handle); some lead dioxide and a smooth, shiny surface, is all that remains of this metal decoration. Vase restored from many fragments; small portion of lip chipped off. Cf. Mon. Ant., IV, 1894, col. 205, fig. 93 for shape.

Hearst Museum object titled Goblet, accession number 8-1545, described as Small gray goblet. Description from Matteucig (1951): Goblet; height: 10.3, cm; diameter: 7.3 cm (see Matteucig's plate IV, 8). Gray impasto. Clay light gray; polished surface varying from dark gray to dark brown. Hemispherical bowl with slightly protruding thick lip. High, hollow, campaniform stem. Traces of mud and lime. Cf. Not. Sc., 1935, Pls. I, II, III, for similar types from Veii.

Hearst Museum object titled Goblet, accession number 8-1547, described as Small bucchero goblet. Description from Matteucig (1951): Goblet; height: 9.8 cm; diameter: 8.5 cm (see Matteucig's plate IV, 10). Gray bucchero. Clay light gray; dark gray polished surface. Flat, protruding lip; hemispherical bowl with a crude attempt at godroon decoration, really a series of irregular, vertical grooves produced with a stick; high hollow stem with three triangular perforations. Bowl restored from nine pieces; badly cracked.

Hearst Museum object titled Goblet, accession number 8-1653, described as Polished red goblet. Description from Matteucig (1951): i). Cup (8/1653); height: 9 cm; diameter: 13.3 cm (see Matteucig's plate VIII, 5). Like no. 8-1652.

Hearst Museum object titled Goblet, accession number 8-1543, described as Goblet w. lead [four triangle shapes]. Description from Matteucig (1951): Goblet; height: 8.3 cm; diameter: 10.5 cm (see Matteucig's plate IV, 6). Gray bucchero. Clay, shape, and decoration as in 1542.

Hearst Museum object titled Goblet, accession number 8-1574, described as Goblet, geometric designs. Description from Matteucig (1951): Krater on high stem. (8/1574); height: 21.3 cm; diameter: 20.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate V, 11). Italo-Geometric. Clay reddish cream; buff slip; decoration in brown-red paint. Low neck with slightly convex, broad lip; deep bowl with rounded sides on high, hollow stem with flaring foot. On shoulder, a metopal decoration of nine vertical lines alternating with hatched rhomboids; the rest of the body and stem covered with parallel bands. On top of lid, groups of six lines roughly corresponding to vertical lines of metopal arrangement; five concentric circles inside bowl. Vase restored from two pieces. Cf. Montelius, pl. 259, 12, from Vulci; Montelius, Chron., pl. 12, 3; cf. Not. Sc., 1928, p. 445, fig. 3. from Capodimonte, for a vase of similar shape and decoration, but with handles; J.d.I., XV, 1900, p. 178, fig. 21, 3 from Poggio Buco; Gsell, Pl. I, fig. 1, from Vulci; Akerström, G.S., pl. 25, 1.

Hearst Museum object titled Goblet, accession number 8-1507, described as Geometric goblet. Description from Matteucig (1951): Krater on high stem; height: 21.5 cm; diameter: 20.5 cm. (see Matteucig's plate II, 3). Italo-Geometric. Clay brick red more purified and finer than in 8-1505 and 8-1506; cream, almost buff slip; thinly applied glaze; decoration in matt-red paint, varying to dark brown. Low neck shows slightly convex, broad lip; deep bowl has rounded sides on high hollow stem with flaring foot. On shoulder, a metopal decoration of nine vertical lines alternating with two horizontal zigzags. The rest of the vase is covered with parallel bands. On the lip, groups of nine stripes roughly corresponding to vertical lines of the "metopes"; five concentric circles on the inside of the bowl. Vase patched together from several pieces; small part of foot missing; some parts restored in red clay. Cf. Montelius, pi. 293, 12; pi. 311, 8 from Falerii, with geometric birds; Si. Etr.. I, 1927, PI. XXV, i, from Caere, also with birds. Albizzati, fase. I, PI. II, 38, and PI. Ill, 39; Sieveking-Hackl, p. 71, fig. 78; C.V.A., Copenhagen, fase. V, pi. 208, no. 3, also nos. 4, 5, 6, and pi. 207, nos. i, 2. For an interesting modification of this shape, with double horizontal handles, from Le Bucacce, cf. Mon. Ant., XXI, 1912, col. 423, fig. 10; for a reversal of technique (white on red) on a somewhat similar shape, cf. Not. Sc., 1903, p. 219, fig. 2, no. i. Akerström, G.S., pi. 25, 3.

Hearst Museum object titled Goblet, accession number 8-1657, described as Gray, clumsy goblet

Hearst Museum object titled Goblet, accession number 8-1544, described as Another, same as 8-1542, faded. Description from Matteucig (1951): Goblet; height: 7.7 cm; diameter: 10.2 cm (see Matteucig's plate IV, 7). Gray bucchero. Cf. nos. 1542– 1543.