Skyphos

Museum number:
8-1790
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.103
Description:
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).
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Tomb F, Poggio Buco, Tuscany
Verbatim coll. place:
Tomb F
Culture or time period:
Etruscan and Etrusco-Corinthian
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection date:
1897
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Skyphoi
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Comment:
Hearst Inventory: Restored
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 6 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 2 of 6 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 3 of 6 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 4 of 6 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 5 of 6 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 6 of 6 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).
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with 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).

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