Etruscan Genucilla plate found in Tarquinia
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Object number
AR3185
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Plate with high foot
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| Material: |
Yellow clay with black painting
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| Date: |
4th century B.C. Etruscan culture |
| Description: |
Plate with high foot, flat bowl and a broad rim. Decorated with four rays around a central dot, in each of the segments three dots, wave with five crests on the rim.
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| Size: |
Diameter 143 mm, height 58 mm.
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| Condition: |
Almost perfectly preserved with very minor wear and tiny firing crack in the rim. Collector's sticker "Christel Aug. 67" on bottom.
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| References: |
An identical plate (presumably from the same workshop), but in a worse state of preservation, is on exhibition in the Metropolitan Museum of Arts in New York City with Accession Number 1982.330.2. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Paris, Musee du Louvre 22, Pl. 47.11-12 (here six wave crests) |
| Provenance: |
Acquired 2021 from the German private collection C. Klinge. Inherited 2017 from the German collection I. Holtermann. Acquired August 12, 1967, at an ancient art gallery in Cologne, Germany. An inventory note from the collection reports the vase to have been found in Tarquinia.
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| Authenticity: |
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