Terra Sigillata Cup with Bud and Flower Pattern
first century CE
Description
Fragmentary terra sigillata cup or broad beaker recomposed from several fragments. In shape the vessel has deep walls, a curved body, and no foot. The walls are decorated with alternating buds and flowers. A circle of flowers surrounds the foot. In this type of vessel the decoration was typically separated from the rim by a groove, in this case accented by a row of beads, above which would have been a plain rim (1). Classification: For similar types, Kenrick, in Elisabeth Ettinger, et. al. Conspectus Formarum Terrae Sigillatae Italico Modo Confectae (Bonn: Dr. Rudolf Habelt GMBH, 1990), Form R 11.1.1. 1. Toronto, J.W. Hayes, Roman Pottery in the Royal Ontario Museum. A Catalogue. Toronto, 1976. p. 72 fig. 1, 56; a cup made by M. Perrenius Tigranus; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, inv. 97.379, a restored cup with similar decorative motifs.
Dimensions
H. 7.5 × W. 4 cm (2 15/16 × 1 9/16 in.)
Provenance
Henry W. Haynes, Boston, MA (by 1912) bequest; to the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, 1912, transfer; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1977.
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