Object name: Aryballos / Object class: Containers (receptacles) / Culture or time period: Etrusco-Corinthian - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Aryballos, accession number 8-1794, described as Etrusco-Corinthian aryballos, with tiny foot, similar to 8-1793. Description from Matteucig (1951): Aryballos; height; 10.4 cm; diameter; 5 cm; (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 15). Italo-Corinthian. Clay pale cream; reddish-cream slip; lustrous dark brown and violet paint. Pointed aryballos. On lip, petal pattern; on flat handle, three brown bands; one brown band at base of neck; on shoulder, brown tongue pattern; then three bands, brown, violet, brown; reserved zone with brown leaves; violet band; another reserved zone with brown leaves; three more bands, brown, violet, brown; reserved zone; three narrow brown bands; reserved zone; point and foot solid brown. Cf. Mingazzini, Pl. XXIX, 5.

Hearst Museum object titled Aryballos, accession number 8-1854, described as Etrusco-Corinthian aryballos buff, four geese. Description from Matteucig (1951): Aryballos; height: 7.1 cm; diameter: 6.3 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 9). Italo-Corinthian. Clay, slip, and paint as in no. 1853. Round aryballos. On lip, three concentric circles; around edge of lip, brown dots; two stripes on flat handle; on shoulder, tongue pattern; on body, four geese going right; usual filling ornaments. Paint badly peeled off; about half the lip is broken. Cf. Albizzati, Pl. XIII, 150.

Hearst Museum object titled Aryballos, accession number 8-1795, described as Etrusco-Corinthian aryballos. Description from Matteucig (1951): Aryballos; height; 10 cm; diameter; 5 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 16). Italo-Corinthian. Clay pink cream; cream slip; light brown and violet paint. Pointed aryballos. On lip, three bands, outer ones brown, middle one, violet; edge of lip, brown; on flat handle, three brown bands; brown band at base of neck; on shoulder, tongue pattern; below this, a series of five alternating brown and violet bands, divided by reserved spaces; a reserved space; two narrow brown bands; another reserved space; point and foot solid brown; three incised lines above foot. Cf. Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., no. 40-4269.

Hearst Museum object titled Aryballos, accession number 8-1791, described as Etrusco-Corinthian squat aryballos. Description from Matteucig (1951): Aryballos; height: 8.2 cm; diameter: 6.9 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 10). Italo-Corinthian. Clay red dish cream; pale-cream slip; dark-brown paint. Round aryballos. On lip, three concentric circles; around edge of lip, a row of dots; two horizontal bands on flat handle; on shoulder, tongue pattern; then two lions conjoined in head between two bands; rosettes; behind lions there seems to have been a bird (duck), as shown by incised plumage. Most of the rosettes and filling ornaments have disappeared. Below lion's head, an eight-petal rosette of which only the center can be seen. Cf. Critica à'Arte, I, 1935, fig. 23.

Hearst Museum object titled Aryballos, accession number 8-1852, described as Large Etrusco-Corinthian aryballos. Description from Matteucig (1951): Aryballos; height: 10.5 cm; diameter: 10.5 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 7). Italo-Corinthian. Clay pinkish cream; cream slip; dark-brown and violet paint. Round aryballos. On lip, three brown concentric circles; three brown bands on flat handle; on shoulder, tongue pattern; below, brown and violet bands divided by narrow reserved lines. Restored from several fragments; some modern filling.

Hearst Museum object titled Aryballos, accession number 8-1853, described as Etrusco-Corinthian aryballos, double feline. Description from Matteucig (1951): Aryballos; height: 8 cm; diameter: 7.2 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 8). Italo-Corinthian. Clay light cream, almost white; glossy cream slip; dark brown and violet paint. Round aryballos. On lip, a brown band; around edge of lip, brown dots; two stripes on flat handle; on shoulder, tongue pattern; on body, two panthers conjoined in head, and a duck; usual filling ornaments; details in red paint. Paint peeling off. Cf. Albizzati, Pl. XIII, 146; Critica d’Arte, I, 1935, fig. 23.

Hearst Museum object titled Aryballos, accession number 8-1965, described as Etrusco-Corinthian aryballos.