jar with portrait relief / Bitumen / Ceramic / Pigment / Plaster or mortar / Slip

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.3080a
Other Number: Van Ingen, Pl. XXX, 1
Type of Number: Catalogue Number
Object Name: jar with portrait relief
Lot: Hoskier, H. C. (ex-Frothingham Collection)
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Pottery
Materials: Bitumen; Ceramic; Pigment; Plaster or mortar; Slip
Design Style: Canosa ware
Width: 32 cm
Height: 46.5 cm
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Handle appears to have been broken off before firing, and its junctures with rim and shoulder roughly pared down with knife. Three holes in the wall of the stand. Buff clay with dark particles, chalky white slip and matte pink and orange-red paint. On body front is a plastic medusa head. Surface covered with slip except for lower body, stand, and underside of foot. Top of rim and upper part of neck covered with black glaze and thinned black glaze on top of stand. Traces of pink on neck and pink bands on shoulder and lower body. Below remains of handle is a pink palmette. Elsewhere faint traces of pink on body. Edge of stand is orange red
Verbatim Date: 3rd C BC
Verbatim Provenance: Italy
Countermark: no
Exhibition Title: Ancient Terracottas: Lasting Impressions of the Distant Past
Exhibition Curator: Allen, Marti Lu
Publication Title: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
Publication Author: Van Ingen, Wilhelmina
Publication Year: 1933
Type Category: Ceramic

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.3080a
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.3080a/dscn9381.jpg

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Full citation: "jar with portrait relief; Bitumen; Ceramic; Pigment; Plaster or mortar; Slip." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.3080a/dscn9381.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 20, 2024.