Skyphos

Museum number:
8-1789
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.103
Object count:
1
Description:
Etrusco-Corinthian skyphos. Description from Matteucig (1951): Cup; height: 9.2 cm; diameter: 15.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 13). Italo-Corinthian. Clay warm pinkish cream; cream slip; reddish-brown and dark violet paint. Cup with offset rim; deep rounded sides, on low hollow foot. In side all brown, except for a violet band at upper and lower edge of rim. Outside, on rim, three brown bands; between upper two bands, a frieze of alternating red-brown and cream rectangles; between lower two, a line of brown dots. The rest all brown, except for a violet band below animal panel and one above foot. On shoulder panel, two ducks going right; eight-petal rosettes with petals alternately brown and violet; plumage of birds alternately brown and violet; on some of the petals and some of the plumage, traces of cream stripes; other filling ornaments. Cup restored from three pieces; decoration badly faded. Cf. J.d.L, XV, 1900, p. 189, fig. 31 from Poggio Buco.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Tomb F, Poggio Buco, Tuscany
Verbatim coll. place:
Tomb F
Culture or time period:
Etruscan and Etrusco-Corinthian
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection date:
1897
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Skyphoi
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 6 titled Skyphos, accession number 8-1789, described as Etrusco-Corinthian skyphos. Description from Matteucig (1951): Cup; height: 9.2 cm; diameter: 15.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 13). Italo-Corinthian. Clay warm pinkish cream; cream slip; reddish-brown and dark violet paint. Cup with offset rim; deep rounded sides, on low hollow foot. In side all brown, except for a violet band at upper and lower edge of rim. Outside, on rim, three brown bands; between upper two bands, a frieze of alternating red-brown and cream rectangles; between lower two, a line of brown dots. The rest all brown, except for a violet band below animal panel and one above foot. On shoulder panel, two ducks going right; eight-petal rosettes with petals alternately brown and violet; plumage of birds alternately brown and violet; on some of the petals and some of the plumage, traces of cream stripes; other filling ornaments. Cup restored from three pieces; decoration badly faded. Cf. J.d.L, XV, 1900, p. 189, fig. 31 from Poggio Buco.Hearst Museum object 2 of 6 titled Skyphos, accession number 8-1789, described as Etrusco-Corinthian skyphos. Description from Matteucig (1951): Cup; height: 9.2 cm; diameter: 15.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 13). Italo-Corinthian. Clay warm pinkish cream; cream slip; reddish-brown and dark violet paint. Cup with offset rim; deep rounded sides, on low hollow foot. In side all brown, except for a violet band at upper and lower edge of rim. Outside, on rim, three brown bands; between upper two bands, a frieze of alternating red-brown and cream rectangles; between lower two, a line of brown dots. The rest all brown, except for a violet band below animal panel and one above foot. On shoulder panel, two ducks going right; eight-petal rosettes with petals alternately brown and violet; plumage of birds alternately brown and violet; on some of the petals and some of the plumage, traces of cream stripes; other filling ornaments. Cup restored from three pieces; decoration badly faded. Cf. J.d.L, XV, 1900, p. 189, fig. 31 from Poggio Buco.Hearst Museum object 3 of 6 titled Skyphos, accession number 8-1789, described as Etrusco-Corinthian skyphos. Description from Matteucig (1951): Cup; height: 9.2 cm; diameter: 15.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 13). Italo-Corinthian. Clay warm pinkish cream; cream slip; reddish-brown and dark violet paint. Cup with offset rim; deep rounded sides, on low hollow foot. In side all brown, except for a violet band at upper and lower edge of rim. Outside, on rim, three brown bands; between upper two bands, a frieze of alternating red-brown and cream rectangles; between lower two, a line of brown dots. The rest all brown, except for a violet band below animal panel and one above foot. On shoulder panel, two ducks going right; eight-petal rosettes with petals alternately brown and violet; plumage of birds alternately brown and violet; on some of the petals and some of the plumage, traces of cream stripes; other filling ornaments. Cup restored from three pieces; decoration badly faded. Cf. J.d.L, XV, 1900, p. 189, fig. 31 from Poggio Buco.Hearst Museum object 4 of 6 titled Skyphos, accession number 8-1789, described as Etrusco-Corinthian skyphos. Description from Matteucig (1951): Cup; height: 9.2 cm; diameter: 15.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 13). Italo-Corinthian. Clay warm pinkish cream; cream slip; reddish-brown and dark violet paint. Cup with offset rim; deep rounded sides, on low hollow foot. In side all brown, except for a violet band at upper and lower edge of rim. Outside, on rim, three brown bands; between upper two bands, a frieze of alternating red-brown and cream rectangles; between lower two, a line of brown dots. The rest all brown, except for a violet band below animal panel and one above foot. On shoulder panel, two ducks going right; eight-petal rosettes with petals alternately brown and violet; plumage of birds alternately brown and violet; on some of the petals and some of the plumage, traces of cream stripes; other filling ornaments. Cup restored from three pieces; decoration badly faded. Cf. J.d.L, XV, 1900, p. 189, fig. 31 from Poggio Buco.Hearst Museum object 5 of 6 titled Skyphos, accession number 8-1789, described as Etrusco-Corinthian skyphos. Description from Matteucig (1951): Cup; height: 9.2 cm; diameter: 15.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 13). Italo-Corinthian. Clay warm pinkish cream; cream slip; reddish-brown and dark violet paint. Cup with offset rim; deep rounded sides, on low hollow foot. In side all brown, except for a violet band at upper and lower edge of rim. Outside, on rim, three brown bands; between upper two bands, a frieze of alternating red-brown and cream rectangles; between lower two, a line of brown dots. The rest all brown, except for a violet band below animal panel and one above foot. On shoulder panel, two ducks going right; eight-petal rosettes with petals alternately brown and violet; plumage of birds alternately brown and violet; on some of the petals and some of the plumage, traces of cream stripes; other filling ornaments. Cup restored from three pieces; decoration badly faded. Cf. J.d.L, XV, 1900, p. 189, fig. 31 from Poggio Buco.Hearst Museum object 6 of 6 titled Skyphos, accession number 8-1789, described as Etrusco-Corinthian skyphos. Description from Matteucig (1951): Cup; height: 9.2 cm; diameter: 15.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 13). Italo-Corinthian. Clay warm pinkish cream; cream slip; reddish-brown and dark violet paint. Cup with offset rim; deep rounded sides, on low hollow foot. In side all brown, except for a violet band at upper and lower edge of rim. Outside, on rim, three brown bands; between upper two bands, a frieze of alternating red-brown and cream rectangles; between lower two, a line of brown dots. The rest all brown, except for a violet band below animal panel and one above foot. On shoulder panel, two ducks going right; eight-petal rosettes with petals alternately brown and violet; plumage of birds alternately brown and violet; on some of the petals and some of the plumage, traces of cream stripes; other filling ornaments. Cup restored from three pieces; decoration badly faded. Cf. J.d.L, XV, 1900, p. 189, fig. 31 from Poggio Buco.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Skyphos, accession number 8-1789, described as Etrusco-Corinthian skyphos. Description from Matteucig (1951): Cup; height: 9.2 cm; diameter: 15.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 13). Italo-Corinthian. Clay warm pinkish cream; cream slip; reddish-brown and dark violet paint. Cup with offset rim; deep rounded sides, on low hollow foot. In side all brown, except for a violet band at upper and lower edge of rim. Outside, on rim, three brown bands; between upper two bands, a frieze of alternating red-brown and cream rectangles; between lower two, a line of brown dots. The rest all brown, except for a violet band below animal panel and one above foot. On shoulder panel, two ducks going right; eight-petal rosettes with petals alternately brown and violet; plumage of birds alternately brown and violet; on some of the petals and some of the plumage, traces of cream stripes; other filling ornaments. Cup restored from three pieces; decoration badly faded. Cf. J.d.L, XV, 1900, p. 189, fig. 31 from Poggio Buco.

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