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Start Over Object class Vessels (containers) Collection place Poggio Buco, Tuscany, Central Italy Maker or artist The Rosoni Painter
Hearst Museum object titled Pitcher, accession number 8-1860, described as Etrusco-Corinthian trefoil pitcher (or olpe). Attributed to the Rosoni Painter. Description from Matteucig (1951): Olpe; height: 32 cm; diameter: 14.5 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 18). Italo-Corinthian. Clay pinkish cream; cream slip; dark-brown and violet paint. Round mouth; high neck; two-reeded handle with rotelle; fillet at base of neck; pyriform body on low flat foot. On rotelle, an incised line rosette; for about 5.5 cm in side mouth, brown paint; neck and outer part of handle, solid brown; four animal triezes: (1) two geese going right; in front of each, a nine-petal rosette; (2) two panthers going right; body in profile, heads full face; rosettes and dots; (3) in the center, a big thirteen-petal rosette: two ducks facing it; to the right a panther (?), and a ten-petal rosette; to the left another rosette faced by a duck; (4) ducks, alternating with rosettes. At bottom, four groups of tongue patterns; six tongues in every group. Vase restored from several fragments; good deal of modern filling in cream clay. Animal friezes and fill ing ornaments very poorly preserved. Cf. Montelius, pl. 209, no. 20from Pitigliano, and pl. 211, no. 14, from Poggio Buco; Not. Sc., 1898, p. 442, fig. 7, from Poggio Buco; St. Etr., IX, 1935, Pl. V, 4, 5, from Heba; Albizzati, Pl. XIII, 130; Beazley-Magi, p. 74, nos. 84,85; Rosone style.

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