Stand
MS2500
Location: On Display in the Etruscan Italy Gallery
From: Italy | Etruria | Orvieto
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS2500 |
| Current Location | Etruscan Italy Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Etruscan |
| Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Orvieto |
| Date Made | 599-500BC |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Bucchero |
| Description | Bucchero "fruitstand"; partially thrown and tooled. Semi-cylindrical body on high foot with flared base; four female heads at corners. Rim grooved and incised. Four tear-shaped cut outs separated by vertical grooves on each side of the body. Foot and base grooved. Fabric: dark grey core, flecks mica (?). Glossy black surface. Top of foot and large body section restored in plaster, painted black. Holes bored probably in antiquity on either side of a break in original portion. Body hand-modeled and tooled; foot-thrown and hollowed out by trimming. Burnished. |
| Height | 19.8 cm |
| Length | 18.7 cm |
| Width | 11.8 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 10.2 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Riccardo Mancini; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1896 |
| Other Number | 814 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number |
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