Kylix
MS2397
From: Italy | Etruria | Chiusi
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS2397 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Campanian | South Italian |
| Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Chiusi |
| Manufacture Location | Campania |
| Date Made | 4th century BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Black Glaze |
| Description | Base and stem a series of stepped moldings. Shallow bowl. Kylix handles, evidently somewhat recurved. Impressed decoration beneath the glaze on center of floor, from center out: a pair of wheel-run lines; a circle of alternate palmettes and buds connected by short curved strokes; two bands of fine rouletting. All very delicate work. Mended from fragments; missing; part of rim, most of one handle and outer end of the other. Unglazed: inside of stem ave for wheel-glazed bands and line; and resting surface. Otherwise covered with high quality blue-black glaze. |
| Height | 0.065 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 16.2 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Davis & Harvey (Coleman Estate Sale); Subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
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