Pitcher

Museum number:
8-1874
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.103
Description:
Corinthian shape pitcher. Description from Matteucig (1951): Oinochoe; height: 29.5 cm; height to top of handle: 34 cm; diameter: 20.3 cm (see Matteucig's plate XX, 8). Italo-Corinthian. Clay light cream almost white. Shape and decoration like that of the vase in the University Museum, Philadelphia, reproduced in St. Etr., X, 1936, Pl. II, 4. About one-third of mouth chipped off; body restored from several fragments with much filling in gray cement. Another exact replica from Poggio Buco in the Museo Archeologico, Florence.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Tomb G, Poggio Buco, Tuscany
Verbatim coll. place:
Tomb G
Culture or time period:
Etruscan and Etrusco-Corinthian
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection date:
1896
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Pitchers (vessels)
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 6 titled Pitcher, accession number 8-1874, described as Corinthian shape pitcher. Description from Matteucig (1951): Oinochoe; height: 29.5 cm; height to top of handle: 34 cm; diameter: 20.3 cm (see Matteucig's plate XX, 8). Italo-Corinthian. Clay light cream almost white. Shape and decoration like that of the vase in the University Museum, Philadelphia, reproduced in St. Etr., X, 1936, Pl. II, 4. About one-third of mouth chipped off; body restored from several fragments with much filling in gray cement. Another exact replica from Poggio Buco in the Museo Archeologico, Florence.Hearst Museum object 2 of 6 titled Pitcher, accession number 8-1874, described as Corinthian shape pitcher. Description from Matteucig (1951): Oinochoe; height: 29.5 cm; height to top of handle: 34 cm; diameter: 20.3 cm (see Matteucig's plate XX, 8). Italo-Corinthian. Clay light cream almost white. Shape and decoration like that of the vase in the University Museum, Philadelphia, reproduced in St. Etr., X, 1936, Pl. II, 4. About one-third of mouth chipped off; body restored from several fragments with much filling in gray cement. Another exact replica from Poggio Buco in the Museo Archeologico, Florence.Hearst Museum object 3 of 6 titled Pitcher, accession number 8-1874, described as Corinthian shape pitcher. Description from Matteucig (1951): Oinochoe; height: 29.5 cm; height to top of handle: 34 cm; diameter: 20.3 cm (see Matteucig's plate XX, 8). Italo-Corinthian. Clay light cream almost white. Shape and decoration like that of the vase in the University Museum, Philadelphia, reproduced in St. Etr., X, 1936, Pl. II, 4. About one-third of mouth chipped off; body restored from several fragments with much filling in gray cement. Another exact replica from Poggio Buco in the Museo Archeologico, Florence.Hearst Museum object 4 of 6 titled Pitcher, accession number 8-1874, described as Corinthian shape pitcher. Description from Matteucig (1951): Oinochoe; height: 29.5 cm; height to top of handle: 34 cm; diameter: 20.3 cm (see Matteucig's plate XX, 8). Italo-Corinthian. Clay light cream almost white. Shape and decoration like that of the vase in the University Museum, Philadelphia, reproduced in St. Etr., X, 1936, Pl. II, 4. About one-third of mouth chipped off; body restored from several fragments with much filling in gray cement. Another exact replica from Poggio Buco in the Museo Archeologico, Florence.Hearst Museum object 5 of 6 titled Pitcher, accession number 8-1874, described as Corinthian shape pitcher. Description from Matteucig (1951): Oinochoe; height: 29.5 cm; height to top of handle: 34 cm; diameter: 20.3 cm (see Matteucig's plate XX, 8). Italo-Corinthian. Clay light cream almost white. Shape and decoration like that of the vase in the University Museum, Philadelphia, reproduced in St. Etr., X, 1936, Pl. II, 4. About one-third of mouth chipped off; body restored from several fragments with much filling in gray cement. Another exact replica from Poggio Buco in the Museo Archeologico, Florence.Hearst Museum object 6 of 6 titled Pitcher, accession number 8-1874, described as Corinthian shape pitcher. Description from Matteucig (1951): Oinochoe; height: 29.5 cm; height to top of handle: 34 cm; diameter: 20.3 cm (see Matteucig's plate XX, 8). Italo-Corinthian. Clay light cream almost white. Shape and decoration like that of the vase in the University Museum, Philadelphia, reproduced in St. Etr., X, 1936, Pl. II, 4. About one-third of mouth chipped off; body restored from several fragments with much filling in gray cement. Another exact replica from Poggio Buco in the Museo Archeologico, Florence.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pitcher, accession number 8-1874, described as Corinthian shape pitcher. Description from Matteucig (1951): Oinochoe; height: 29.5 cm; height to top of handle: 34 cm; diameter: 20.3 cm (see Matteucig's plate XX, 8). Italo-Corinthian. Clay light cream almost white. Shape and decoration like that of the vase in the University Museum, Philadelphia, reproduced in St. Etr., X, 1936, Pl. II, 4. About one-third of mouth chipped off; body restored from several fragments with much filling in gray cement. Another exact replica from Poggio Buco in the Museo Archeologico, Florence.

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