Campanian Pottery - Teano Ware: Dish
Inv. No.: 86.126
Provenance: Campania
Date: late 4th century BC
Height: 46mm
Diameter: 85mm
This small dish has a wide flat rim and a rounded bowl with a moulded ridge between the rim and the bowl on the outside and another between the bowl and the foot. The foot has a base in two degrees and a grooved stem. The top section of the foot is an inverted echinus shape while the bottom section is convex. A groove separates the two sections. There are three incised grooves on the top of the flat rim separating bands of incised, impressed and painted patterns. The foot is also decorated. Black is the main colour with added white used for the painted decoration and red miltos used to highlight the incised grooves. The clay is pale orange. This vase is a typical example of Teano ware in its shape and decoration. The name derives from the findspot of many vases of this type. They were probably made in Teano, most likely in one workshop and were probably produced at the end of the fourth century and for the first twenty years of the 3rd century BC. This vase is in good condition except for a few small chips and some abrasion.
Function:
A serving dish or offering, used for votive or funerary purposes.
Manufacture:
A wheel-thrown and turned vase with incised, stamped and painted patterns.
Decoration:
- The top of the rim has three incised rings into which red miltos has been rubbed. Between the outer ring and the second ring is a band of incised ovolo pattern with added white dots. The second and inner rings enclose a band of stamped oval motives.
- In the centre of the interior of the dish is a cross made from stamped oval motives with groups of three stamped circles on the outer edges of the arms of the cross and a central stamped circle. There are incised circles between the arms of the cross.
- The top of the lower section of the foot is decorated with an incised line with red added. Below this is a band of incised ovolo pattern with added white dots.
Bibliography:
Breitenstein, N. and K. Friis Johansen, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Danemark 7, Copenhague 7 (1955), 219. , Italia 29, Capua 3 (undated), 5-6.
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
Green, J. R., "Teano", The Art of South Italy: Vases from Magna Graecia, eds. M. E. Mayo and K. Hamma, Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1982, 259.
Green, J. R., "Three Teano Vases", Classical Art in the Nicholson Museum, Sydney, eds. A. Cambitoglou and E. D. G. Robinson, Mainz, Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1995, 211-217.
Comparanda:
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Italia 29, Capua 3 (undated), IV, Eg, Tavola 1, 7 and 11.
Ingen, W. van, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, USA 3, Michigan 1 (1933), IV E, Plate XXXVI, 6 a and b (similar shape and decoration).
Rückert, B., Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Deutschland 69, Tübingen 7 (1997), Tafel 31, 3 and 5 (similar shape).