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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