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Early Etruscan Bucchero cup

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Object number
AR3186
Object: Cup or bowl with two handles

Material: Grey clay with brown-black slip
Early Etruscan bucchero

Date: About 8th - 7th century BC
Etruscan culture

Description:    Bowl slightly flattened at the bottom with central depression, high conical walls, steep shoulder and high straight rim. With two handles (one of which broken).
On the shoulder small central knob, parallel grooves to both sides towards the handles. Below the handles six circular depressions, imitating rivets on bronze vessels.

Size: Diameter 142 mm, height 75 mm.

Condition: One of the handles broken, otherwise perfectly preserved. Base with modern velvet cover.

Reference: Compare Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Frankfurt, Universität und Liebighaus 4, Pl. 61.1

Provenance: Acquired 2021 from a German private collection. Inherited 2017 from the German collection I. Holtermann. Acquired between 1966 and 1968 at an ancient art gallery in Cologne, Germany.

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