Pozzuoli / painted plaster fragment / Paint / Pigment / Plaster or mortar / Wood

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.2802
Object Name: painted plaster fragment
Lot: DeCriscio, Guiseppe
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Stucco (molded)
Materials: Paint; Pigment; Plaster or mortar; Wood
Weight: 3848 g with box
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Dark green-blue with purple-red touches. Supposed forequarters of horse have short snout with fangs (?), goat’s horns, tuffed mane (?) and forelegs. Recedes to a snakey end of a fish or dolphin. One dolphin jumps in front, one behind. Cream background. Surface dirty and pitted. Plastered to form a neat rectangle.; Gazda: Mural fragment of a sea lion and dolphins. Stucco, pigment; fresco secco with plaster restorations along the edges; modern frame.
Subjects: Hippocampus, two dolphins
Verbatim Date: 1st - 2nd C AD
Verbatim Provenance: Italy
Verbatim Site: Pozzuoli
Countermark: no
Exhibition Title: In Pursuit of Antiquity: Thomas Spencer Jerome and the Bay of Naples (1899-1914); Case 25 - Roman Bath
Exhibition Curator: Gazda, Elaine
Exhibition Year: 2009
Type Category: Artifact

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.2802
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.2802/dscn1662.jpg

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Full citation: "Pozzuoli; painted plaster fragment; Paint; Pigment; Plaster or mortar; Wood." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.2802/dscn1662.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024.