Bucchero cup; small splaying foot into beveled exterior edge at low shoulder, with corresponding inverse on interior bowl
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Orvieto, Umbria, Central Italy
Culture or time period:
Etruscan
Collector:
Arthur L. Frothingham
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Bucchero ware and Cups (drinking vessels)
Accession date:
February 4, 1902
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Dimensions:
height 5.5 centimeters, width 13.2 centimeters, and circumference 40.5 centimeters
Comment:
Good but fragile condition due to crack - 3.7 cm in length with branched end on exterior (starts at rim, visible interior and exterior); orange accretions throughout; losses at foot and random surface abrasions