Kantharos

MS3247

From: Italy | Etruria | Orvieto

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS3247
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Italy | Etruria | Orvieto
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique Bucchero
Description

Kantharos of fine dark grey bucchero ware. Flaring ring foot with convex underside. Truncated conical body. Carination on lower body, with corresponding groove on the interior. Rounded rim. Strap handles, attached at carination and rim.

Finely burnished except for inside of handles. Outside of handles burnished vertically.

Catalogue card: Part of a group comprised of MS 3246 to MS 3263.

Height 11.2 cm
Width 15.88 cm
Outside Diameter 11.5 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Riccardo Mancini; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1898

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