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| Type of Object: | Vessel |
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| Materials: | Clay |
| Measurements: | Various |
| Date or Period: | End of 4th c. B.C. |
| Maker: | Etruscan |
| Designated List Section: | IIIB1a Ceramic Vessels -- Local Etruscan |
| Date of Import Restriction: | 01/23/2001 |
| Photograph: | Direzione Generale per i Beni Archeologici |
| Copyright: | Ministry of Culture |
| Description of Designated List Category Subject to Import Restrictions: | |
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| Decorated ceramic vessels produced by Etruscan culture including Villanovan; Orientalizing pottery with imitations of Near Eastern designs painted on local hand-made vessels; archaic Etruscan painted pottery with polychrome decoration; funerary and cinerary vessels; Italo-Geometric pottery where production from local Etruscan workshops imitated Greek Geometric; bucchero made with a characteristic soft black paste and polished surface whose highly decorative shapes often imitate metal vessels; local imitations of black and red figure Attic; Etruscan imitations of Corinthian pottery; pottery with black glaze and orange stripes that imitates Ionic pottery; amphora in the Pontic style with painted figural decoration made by a single workshop of immigrant Ionic potters in Vulci, Etruria; Caeretan hydria attributed to a workshop of Greek immigrants working near Caere, Etruria. Approximate date: 9th c. to 3rd c. B.C. Following the influence of imported Greek pottery, and the immigration of Greek potters to Southern Etruria between c. 510 and 480 B.C., Etruscan artisans began local production of black figure pottery. In the 5th and 4th c. B.C., again under the influence of imported Greek pottery, Etruscan artisans began to produce red figure pottery. In addition to geometric and vegetal motifs, there were also figural scenes illustrating mythological subjects, battles, games, symposia, etc, imitating the subject matter of contemporary Attic pottery. This example is an Etruscan red figure footed cup (kantharos) decorated with a dance scene. On the shoulder is a band with geometric decoration. | |
| Keywords: | |
| ceramic, Etruscan, footed cup, jar, red figure, vessel, |
