One-handled Kantharos (drinking vessel)
Date: about 550-525 BCE
Dimensions:
H: 17 in. (43.2 cm); H (to rim): 9 29/32 in. - 10 5/8 in. (25.2 - 27.0 cm); Diam (rim): 9 1/2 in. (24.2 cm); Diam (foot): 6 7/32 in. (15.8 cm)
Medium: Terracotta, bucchero ware: wheel-thrown earthenware with applied, pressed, and incised decoration
Place of Origin: Etruria, probably from Vulci in central Italy
Classification: Ceramics
Credit Line: Gift of The Georgia Welles Apollo Society
Object number: 1993.51
Label Text:Bucchero is the name for pottery with a shiny dark surface that was common in Italy before the Romans, between about 800 and 500 BCE. Shapes often imitate costly metal vessels, with sharp ridges, flat handles, and dots that resemble rivets. The designs applied to the handle—above, a frontal head of a woman and below, a man holding a bow—resemble hammered relief decoration on bronze or silver vessels.
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