Pitcher

Museum number:
8-1861
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Accession number:
Acc.103
Description:
Etrusco-Corinthian pitcher. Description from Matteucig (1951): Olpe; height: 20.5 cm; diameter: 12.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 16). Italo-Corinthian. Clay light cream, almost white; cream slip; dark brown, violet, and gray paint. Round mouth with two small flat protuberances on either side of strap handle; low neck with fillet on base; pyriform body on flat foot. Inside mouth, for about 2 cm, brown band; neck, solid brown; on shoulder, a reserved panel with three groups of seven tongues; on either side of handle a cream cross; another cross in gray paint inside the mouth; below shoulder panel, broad violet and brown bands divided by narrow gray lines; two bands of double incised, interlaced, semicircles, with cream dots filling the intervening spaces; above foot, three groups of six tongues. Vase restored from several fragments. Cf. Montelius, pl. 209, fig. 17; J.d.I., XV, 1900, p. 187, fig. 29, no. 5, from Poggio Buco; Gsell, Pl. II, 2; Sieveking-Hackl, Pl. XXVII, 630; C.W.A., Belgium, fasc. 2, III C b, pl. 1, fig. 3.
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 8 titled Pitcher, accession number 8-1861, described as Etrusco-Corinthian pitcher. Description from Matteucig (1951): Olpe; height: 20.5 cm; diameter: 12.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 16). Italo-Corinthian. Clay light cream, almost white; cream slip; dark brown, violet, and gray paint. Round mouth with two small flat protuberances on either side of strap handle; low neck with fillet on base; pyriform body on flat foot. Inside mouth, for about 2 cm, brown band; neck, solid brown; on shoulder, a reserved panel with three groups of seven tongues; on either side of handle a cream cross; another cross in gray paint inside the mouth; below shoulder panel, broad violet and brown bands divided by narrow gray lines; two bands of double incised, interlaced, semicircles, with cream dots filling the intervening spaces; above foot, three groups of six tongues. Vase restored from several fragments. Cf. Montelius, pl. 209, fig. 17; J.d.I., XV, 1900, p. 187, fig. 29, no. 5, from Poggio Buco; Gsell, Pl. II, 2; Sieveking-Hackl, Pl. XXVII, 630; C.W.A., Belgium, fasc. 2, III C b, pl. 1, fig. 3.Hearst Museum object 2 of 8 titled Pitcher, accession number 8-1861, described as Etrusco-Corinthian pitcher. Description from Matteucig (1951): Olpe; height: 20.5 cm; diameter: 12.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 16). Italo-Corinthian. Clay light cream, almost white; cream slip; dark brown, violet, and gray paint. Round mouth with two small flat protuberances on either side of strap handle; low neck with fillet on base; pyriform body on flat foot. Inside mouth, for about 2 cm, brown band; neck, solid brown; on shoulder, a reserved panel with three groups of seven tongues; on either side of handle a cream cross; another cross in gray paint inside the mouth; below shoulder panel, broad violet and brown bands divided by narrow gray lines; two bands of double incised, interlaced, semicircles, with cream dots filling the intervening spaces; above foot, three groups of six tongues. Vase restored from several fragments. Cf. Montelius, pl. 209, fig. 17; J.d.I., XV, 1900, p. 187, fig. 29, no. 5, from Poggio Buco; Gsell, Pl. II, 2; Sieveking-Hackl, Pl. XXVII, 630; C.W.A., Belgium, fasc. 2, III C b, pl. 1, fig. 3.Hearst Museum object 3 of 8 titled Pitcher, accession number 8-1861, described as Etrusco-Corinthian pitcher. Description from Matteucig (1951): Olpe; height: 20.5 cm; diameter: 12.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 16). Italo-Corinthian. Clay light cream, almost white; cream slip; dark brown, violet, and gray paint. Round mouth with two small flat protuberances on either side of strap handle; low neck with fillet on base; pyriform body on flat foot. Inside mouth, for about 2 cm, brown band; neck, solid brown; on shoulder, a reserved panel with three groups of seven tongues; on either side of handle a cream cross; another cross in gray paint inside the mouth; below shoulder panel, broad violet and brown bands divided by narrow gray lines; two bands of double incised, interlaced, semicircles, with cream dots filling the intervening spaces; above foot, three groups of six tongues. Vase restored from several fragments. Cf. Montelius, pl. 209, fig. 17; J.d.I., XV, 1900, p. 187, fig. 29, no. 5, from Poggio Buco; Gsell, Pl. II, 2; Sieveking-Hackl, Pl. XXVII, 630; C.W.A., Belgium, fasc. 2, III C b, pl. 1, fig. 3.Hearst Museum object 4 of 8 titled Pitcher, accession number 8-1861, described as Etrusco-Corinthian pitcher. Description from Matteucig (1951): Olpe; height: 20.5 cm; diameter: 12.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 16). Italo-Corinthian. Clay light cream, almost white; cream slip; dark brown, violet, and gray paint. Round mouth with two small flat protuberances on either side of strap handle; low neck with fillet on base; pyriform body on flat foot. Inside mouth, for about 2 cm, brown band; neck, solid brown; on shoulder, a reserved panel with three groups of seven tongues; on either side of handle a cream cross; another cross in gray paint inside the mouth; below shoulder panel, broad violet and brown bands divided by narrow gray lines; two bands of double incised, interlaced, semicircles, with cream dots filling the intervening spaces; above foot, three groups of six tongues. Vase restored from several fragments. Cf. Montelius, pl. 209, fig. 17; J.d.I., XV, 1900, p. 187, fig. 29, no. 5, from Poggio Buco; Gsell, Pl. II, 2; Sieveking-Hackl, Pl. XXVII, 630; C.W.A., Belgium, fasc. 2, III C b, pl. 1, fig. 3.Hearst Museum object 5 of 8 titled Pitcher, accession number 8-1861, described as Etrusco-Corinthian pitcher. Description from Matteucig (1951): Olpe; height: 20.5 cm; diameter: 12.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 16). Italo-Corinthian. Clay light cream, almost white; cream slip; dark brown, violet, and gray paint. Round mouth with two small flat protuberances on either side of strap handle; low neck with fillet on base; pyriform body on flat foot. Inside mouth, for about 2 cm, brown band; neck, solid brown; on shoulder, a reserved panel with three groups of seven tongues; on either side of handle a cream cross; another cross in gray paint inside the mouth; below shoulder panel, broad violet and brown bands divided by narrow gray lines; two bands of double incised, interlaced, semicircles, with cream dots filling the intervening spaces; above foot, three groups of six tongues. Vase restored from several fragments. Cf. Montelius, pl. 209, fig. 17; J.d.I., XV, 1900, p. 187, fig. 29, no. 5, from Poggio Buco; Gsell, Pl. II, 2; Sieveking-Hackl, Pl. XXVII, 630; C.W.A., Belgium, fasc. 2, III C b, pl. 1, fig. 3.Hearst Museum object 6 of 8 titled Pitcher, accession number 8-1861, described as Etrusco-Corinthian pitcher. Description from Matteucig (1951): Olpe; height: 20.5 cm; diameter: 12.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 16). Italo-Corinthian. Clay light cream, almost white; cream slip; dark brown, violet, and gray paint. Round mouth with two small flat protuberances on either side of strap handle; low neck with fillet on base; pyriform body on flat foot. Inside mouth, for about 2 cm, brown band; neck, solid brown; on shoulder, a reserved panel with three groups of seven tongues; on either side of handle a cream cross; another cross in gray paint inside the mouth; below shoulder panel, broad violet and brown bands divided by narrow gray lines; two bands of double incised, interlaced, semicircles, with cream dots filling the intervening spaces; above foot, three groups of six tongues. Vase restored from several fragments. Cf. Montelius, pl. 209, fig. 17; J.d.I., XV, 1900, p. 187, fig. 29, no. 5, from Poggio Buco; Gsell, Pl. II, 2; Sieveking-Hackl, Pl. XXVII, 630; C.W.A., Belgium, fasc. 2, III C b, pl. 1, fig. 3.Hearst Museum object 7 of 8 titled Pitcher, accession number 8-1861, described as Etrusco-Corinthian pitcher. Description from Matteucig (1951): Olpe; height: 20.5 cm; diameter: 12.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 16). Italo-Corinthian. Clay light cream, almost white; cream slip; dark brown, violet, and gray paint. Round mouth with two small flat protuberances on either side of strap handle; low neck with fillet on base; pyriform body on flat foot. Inside mouth, for about 2 cm, brown band; neck, solid brown; on shoulder, a reserved panel with three groups of seven tongues; on either side of handle a cream cross; another cross in gray paint inside the mouth; below shoulder panel, broad violet and brown bands divided by narrow gray lines; two bands of double incised, interlaced, semicircles, with cream dots filling the intervening spaces; above foot, three groups of six tongues. Vase restored from several fragments. Cf. Montelius, pl. 209, fig. 17; J.d.I., XV, 1900, p. 187, fig. 29, no. 5, from Poggio Buco; Gsell, Pl. II, 2; Sieveking-Hackl, Pl. XXVII, 630; C.W.A., Belgium, fasc. 2, III C b, pl. 1, fig. 3.Hearst Museum object 8 of 8 titled Pitcher, accession number 8-1861, described as Etrusco-Corinthian pitcher. Description from Matteucig (1951): Olpe; height: 20.5 cm; diameter: 12.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 16). Italo-Corinthian. Clay light cream, almost white; cream slip; dark brown, violet, and gray paint. Round mouth with two small flat protuberances on either side of strap handle; low neck with fillet on base; pyriform body on flat foot. Inside mouth, for about 2 cm, brown band; neck, solid brown; on shoulder, a reserved panel with three groups of seven tongues; on either side of handle a cream cross; another cross in gray paint inside the mouth; below shoulder panel, broad violet and brown bands divided by narrow gray lines; two bands of double incised, interlaced, semicircles, with cream dots filling the intervening spaces; above foot, three groups of six tongues. Vase restored from several fragments. Cf. Montelius, pl. 209, fig. 17; J.d.I., XV, 1900, p. 187, fig. 29, no. 5, from Poggio Buco; Gsell, Pl. II, 2; Sieveking-Hackl, Pl. XXVII, 630; C.W.A., Belgium, fasc. 2, III C b, pl. 1, fig. 3.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pitcher, accession number 8-1861, described as Etrusco-Corinthian pitcher. Description from Matteucig (1951): Olpe; height: 20.5 cm; diameter: 12.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 16). Italo-Corinthian. Clay light cream, almost white; cream slip; dark brown, violet, and gray paint. Round mouth with two small flat protuberances on either side of strap handle; low neck with fillet on base; pyriform body on flat foot. Inside mouth, for about 2 cm, brown band; neck, solid brown; on shoulder, a reserved panel with three groups of seven tongues; on either side of handle a cream cross; another cross in gray paint inside the mouth; below shoulder panel, broad violet and brown bands divided by narrow gray lines; two bands of double incised, interlaced, semicircles, with cream dots filling the intervening spaces; above foot, three groups of six tongues. Vase restored from several fragments. Cf. Montelius, pl. 209, fig. 17; J.d.I., XV, 1900, p. 187, fig. 29, no. 5, from Poggio Buco; Gsell, Pl. II, 2; Sieveking-Hackl, Pl. XXVII, 630; C.W.A., Belgium, fasc. 2, III C b, pl. 1, fig. 3.

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