Oinochoe (wine pitcher)
6th century BCE
Description
An impasto pitcher fired dark gray to medium brown; recomposed from large fragments. Rotelles (one restored in plaster) frame the handle attachment at the rim; the lower end of the handle terminates in a leaf-like shape with vertical incisions.
Provenance
Excavated from Tomb V, Poggio Sommavilla, Italy by Fausto Benedetti, Italy (1896-1897), sold; to Joseph Clark Hoppin, Boston (1897-?). Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908).
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