Etruscan Pottery Bucchero Ware: Buccheroid chalice
Inv. No.: 82.048
Provenance: Etruria
Date: 7th century BC
Height: 122mm
Width: 138mm
Gift of David H. Swingler.
This cup has been re-assembled from many fragments with much infilling, especially on the foot and lip. The lip has a straight flaring profile and is decorated with a band of four horizontal incised lines. It is separated from the slightly rounded base by a ledged carination and the bowl is set on a flaring trumpet-shaped hollow foot. The shape is related to Rasmussen Type 2b. It has been fired in a partially reducing atmosphere with the result that it is a dark red-brown colour with some black rather than the shiny black characteristic of fine bucchero ware.
Function:
A large drinking cup or stemmed bowl.
Manufacture:
A wheel-thrown and turned vase with a separately thrown stemmed foot attached with slip as the clay was beginning to harden.
Decoration:
- On the outside of the lip is a band of four horizontal incised lines with the top line set about halfway up the side of the lip.
- The junction of the lip and bowl is marked by a flange on the outside and a deep groove on the inside.
Bibliography:
Ramage, N. H., "Studies in Early Etruscan Bucchero", Papers of the British School at Rome, XXXVIII (1970), 24-27.
Rasmussen, T. B., Bucchero Pottery from Southern Etruria, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1979, 95-101, especially 97.
Comparanda:
Pryce, F. N., Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britain 10, British Museum 7 (1932), IV B a, Pl. 23, 3 (dark brown impasto; mid-7th century BC).
Rasmussen, T. B., Bucchero Pottery from Southern Etruria, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1979, Pl. 27, 133.