Oinochoe

Museum number:
8-1788
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.103
Description:
Etrusco-Corinthian oinochoe (pitcher). Description from Matteucig (1951): Olpe; height: 17.8 cm; diameter: 10.5 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 7). Italo-Corinthian. Clay pale buff; cream slip; brown-red paint. Round mouth; flaring lip; high neck with fillet at base; pyriform body on low solid foot; strap handle. Neck and outer part of handle covered with brownish-red paint; on shoulder, tongue pattern; on either side of handle, a cross ornament in cream paint; below this, two zones of double interlaced semicircles with intervening spaces filled by cream dots; above foot, three groups of seven tongues. Most of the paint peeled off; vase badly defaced by mud deposits. Cf. Montelius, pi. 209, no. 17, from Pitigliano; pi. 264, no. i, from Vulci; Robin son, Toronto Vases, PI. XIV, 197.
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:
Oinochoai
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 5 titled Oinochoe, accession number 8-1788, described as Etrusco-Corinthian oinochoe (pitcher). Description from Matteucig (1951): Olpe; height: 17.8 cm; diameter: 10.5 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 7). Italo-Corinthian. Clay pale buff; cream slip; brown-red paint. Round mouth; flaring lip; high neck with fillet at base; pyriform body on low solid foot; strap handle. Neck and outer part of handle covered with brownish-red paint; on shoulder, tongue pattern; on either side of handle, a cross ornament in cream paint; below this, two zones of double interlaced semicircles with intervening spaces filled by cream dots; above foot, three groups of seven tongues. Most of the paint peeled off; vase badly defaced by mud deposits. Cf. Montelius, pi. 209, no. 17, from Pitigliano; pi. 264, no. i, from Vulci; Robin son, Toronto Vases, PI. XIV, 197.Hearst Museum object 2 of 5 titled Oinochoe, accession number 8-1788, described as Etrusco-Corinthian oinochoe (pitcher). Description from Matteucig (1951): Olpe; height: 17.8 cm; diameter: 10.5 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 7). Italo-Corinthian. Clay pale buff; cream slip; brown-red paint. Round mouth; flaring lip; high neck with fillet at base; pyriform body on low solid foot; strap handle. Neck and outer part of handle covered with brownish-red paint; on shoulder, tongue pattern; on either side of handle, a cross ornament in cream paint; below this, two zones of double interlaced semicircles with intervening spaces filled by cream dots; above foot, three groups of seven tongues. Most of the paint peeled off; vase badly defaced by mud deposits. Cf. Montelius, pi. 209, no. 17, from Pitigliano; pi. 264, no. i, from Vulci; Robin son, Toronto Vases, PI. XIV, 197.Hearst Museum object 3 of 5 titled Oinochoe, accession number 8-1788, described as Etrusco-Corinthian oinochoe (pitcher). Description from Matteucig (1951): Olpe; height: 17.8 cm; diameter: 10.5 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 7). Italo-Corinthian. Clay pale buff; cream slip; brown-red paint. Round mouth; flaring lip; high neck with fillet at base; pyriform body on low solid foot; strap handle. Neck and outer part of handle covered with brownish-red paint; on shoulder, tongue pattern; on either side of handle, a cross ornament in cream paint; below this, two zones of double interlaced semicircles with intervening spaces filled by cream dots; above foot, three groups of seven tongues. Most of the paint peeled off; vase badly defaced by mud deposits. Cf. Montelius, pi. 209, no. 17, from Pitigliano; pi. 264, no. i, from Vulci; Robin son, Toronto Vases, PI. XIV, 197.Hearst Museum object 4 of 5 titled Oinochoe, accession number 8-1788, described as Etrusco-Corinthian oinochoe (pitcher). Description from Matteucig (1951): Olpe; height: 17.8 cm; diameter: 10.5 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 7). Italo-Corinthian. Clay pale buff; cream slip; brown-red paint. Round mouth; flaring lip; high neck with fillet at base; pyriform body on low solid foot; strap handle. Neck and outer part of handle covered with brownish-red paint; on shoulder, tongue pattern; on either side of handle, a cross ornament in cream paint; below this, two zones of double interlaced semicircles with intervening spaces filled by cream dots; above foot, three groups of seven tongues. Most of the paint peeled off; vase badly defaced by mud deposits. Cf. Montelius, pi. 209, no. 17, from Pitigliano; pi. 264, no. i, from Vulci; Robin son, Toronto Vases, PI. XIV, 197.Hearst Museum object 5 of 5 titled Oinochoe, accession number 8-1788, described as Etrusco-Corinthian oinochoe (pitcher). Description from Matteucig (1951): Olpe; height: 17.8 cm; diameter: 10.5 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 7). Italo-Corinthian. Clay pale buff; cream slip; brown-red paint. Round mouth; flaring lip; high neck with fillet at base; pyriform body on low solid foot; strap handle. Neck and outer part of handle covered with brownish-red paint; on shoulder, tongue pattern; on either side of handle, a cross ornament in cream paint; below this, two zones of double interlaced semicircles with intervening spaces filled by cream dots; above foot, three groups of seven tongues. Most of the paint peeled off; vase badly defaced by mud deposits. Cf. Montelius, pi. 209, no. 17, from Pitigliano; pi. 264, no. i, from Vulci; Robin son, Toronto Vases, PI. XIV, 197.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Oinochoe, accession number 8-1788, described as Etrusco-Corinthian oinochoe (pitcher). Description from Matteucig (1951): Olpe; height: 17.8 cm; diameter: 10.5 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 7). Italo-Corinthian. Clay pale buff; cream slip; brown-red paint. Round mouth; flaring lip; high neck with fillet at base; pyriform body on low solid foot; strap handle. Neck and outer part of handle covered with brownish-red paint; on shoulder, tongue pattern; on either side of handle, a cross ornament in cream paint; below this, two zones of double interlaced semicircles with intervening spaces filled by cream dots; above foot, three groups of seven tongues. Most of the paint peeled off; vase badly defaced by mud deposits. Cf. Montelius, pi. 209, no. 17, from Pitigliano; pi. 264, no. i, from Vulci; Robin son, Toronto Vases, PI. XIV, 197.

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