Pitcher

Museum number:
8-1860
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Accession number:
Acc.103
Description:
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.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Tomb G, Poggio Buco, Tuscany
Verbatim coll. place:
Tomb G
Culture or time period:
Etruscan and Etrusco-Corinthian
Maker or artist:
The Rosoni Painter
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection date:
1896
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Pitchers (vessels)
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Loans:
S1963-1964 #67: Department of Art History (UC Berkeley)/Darrell Arlynn Amyx (March 3, 1964–June 19, 1964)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 13 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.Hearst Museum object 2 of 13 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.Hearst Museum object 3 of 13 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.Hearst Museum object 4 of 13 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.Hearst Museum object 5 of 13 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.Hearst Museum object 6 of 13 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.Hearst Museum object 7 of 13 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.Hearst Museum object 8 of 13 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.Hearst Museum object 9 of 13 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.Hearst Museum object 10 of 13 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.Hearst Museum object 11 of 13 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.Hearst Museum object 12 of 13 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.Hearst Museum object 13 of 13 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.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with 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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