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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 8-1790, described as Etrusco-Corinthian skyphos, restored, similar to 8-1789. Description from Matteucig (1951): Cup; height: 8.5 cm; diameter: 14.8 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 14). Italo-Corinthian. Clay, paint, and shape as in no. 8-1789. Inside decoration as in preceding; outside, on rim, three brown bands; between lower two bands a line of brown dots. On shoulder panel, two ducks going right, separated by seven-petal rosette; petals and feathers alternately brown and violet; brown petals and feathers filled with cream dots. Cup restored from six fragments; decoration faded and defaced by mud deposits. Cf. Sieveking-Hackl, PL XXX, 613; Robin son, Toronto Vases, PL XIII, 185; Albizzati, PL XIII, 139).

Hearst Museum object titled Skyphos, accession number 8-1846, described as Description from Matteucig (1951): Skyphos; height: 8.5 cm; diameter: 13.5 cm. (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 2). Italo-Protocorinthian. Clay warm buff; cream slip; red, red-brown paint. Straight rim; deep sides on small flat base. On rim, two narrow bands; on shoulder, linear decoration, badly faded, probably sim ilar to 8-1663; below shoulder panel, four narrow bands, a broader one, and four more narrow ones; lower half of vase all red; two concentric circles under foot. Paint peeling off.

Hearst Museum object titled Skyphos, accession number 8-1851, described as Etrusco-Corinthian skyphos, similar to 8-1850. Description from Matteucig (1951): Cup; height: 9.5 cm; diameter: 16.2 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 6). Italo-Corinthian. Clay, slip, paint, and shape as in no. 8-1850. Decoration practically the same, except that on one side of the vase, instead of dark brown, the paint is reddish brown, probably due to uneven firing. The rosettes have ten to eleven petals. Cup restored from several fragments; some modern filling in cement; lip and foot slightly chipped; paint peeling off.

Hearst Museum object titled Skyphos, accession number 8-1845, described as Description from Matteucig (1951): Skyphos; height: 9 cm; diameter: 14.3 cm. (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 1). Italo-Protocorinthian. Clay warm buff, cream slip; red, brown-red paint, varying according to thickness of application. Slightly offset rim; deep sides on flat base. On rim, three narrow bands; on shoulder, metopal arrangement of six vertical stripes and maeanders; handles, striped; be low shoulder panel, three narrow bands, a small reserved zone, another broad band and a narrow reserved; lower half of vase, all red; under foot, a central red dot in a circle. Skyphos very fragmentary; restored from five pieces; about one-quarter of vase missing.

Hearst Museum object titled Skyphos, accession number 8-1789, described as Etrusco-Corinthian skyphos. Description from Matteucig (1951): Cup; height: 9.2 cm; diameter: 15.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 13). Italo-Corinthian. Clay warm pinkish cream; cream slip; reddish-brown and dark violet paint. Cup with offset rim; deep rounded sides, on low hollow foot. In side all brown, except for a violet band at upper and lower edge of rim. Outside, on rim, three brown bands; between upper two bands, a frieze of alternating red-brown and cream rectangles; between lower two, a line of brown dots. The rest all brown, except for a violet band below animal panel and one above foot. On shoulder panel, two ducks going right; eight-petal rosettes with petals alternately brown and violet; plumage of birds alternately brown and violet; on some of the petals and some of the plumage, traces of cream stripes; other filling ornaments. Cup restored from three pieces; decoration badly faded. Cf. J.d.L, XV, 1900, p. 189, fig. 31 from Poggio Buco.