One-handled Kantharos (drinking vessel)
One-handled Kantharos (drinking vessel)
Place of OriginEtruria, probably from Vulci in central Italy
Dateabout 550-525 BCE
Dimensions17 1/16 × 11 5/16 × 9 1/2 × 6 3/16 in. (43.3 × 28.7 × 24.2 × 15.7 cm)
to rim: 10 11/16 in. (27.2 cm)
to rim: 10 11/16 in. (27.2 cm)
MediumTerracotta, bucchero ware: wheel-thrown earthenware with applied, pressed, and incised decoration
ClassificationCeramics
Credit LineGift of The Georgia Welles Apollo Society
Object number
1993.51
On View
Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 02, Classic
Collections
Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, A decade of giving: The Apollo Society at the Toledo Museum of Art, 1996, p. 19, repr.
- Decorative Arts
Toledo Museum of Art, Inspired Giving: The Apollo Society 25th Anniversary Exhibition, October 15, 2010-February 13, 2011, p. 21, repr. (col.). p. 21.
Comparative ReferencesSee also De Puma, R., Etruscan and Villanovan Pottery, Iowa City, The University of Iowa Museum of Art exhibition catalogue, 1971, pp. 17-25, esp. p. 21, no. 32.Label TextBucchero 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.
675-525 BCE
Workshop of the potter Nikosthenes
about 520 BCE
3rd century BCE
The Leagros Group, Painter S
about 510 BCE
The Acheloos Painter, Leagros Group
about 510-500 BCE
A painter near the Edinburgh Painter
about 510-500 BCE
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