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).
Related Artworks
View MoreSilver
17th-19th centuryFrenchTerracotta
5th century BCEGreekSilver
17th-19th centuryFrenchCeramic
19th centuryJapaneseCeramic
20th centuryFrenchTerracotta
GreekSilver
18th centuryBritish, ScottishPunch'ŏng ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over decoration painted in iron-brown slip on the white-slip ground. Made near Kongju, at the foot of Mount Kyeryong, South Ch'ungch'ŏng province.
16th centuryKoreanGilt silver
16th centuryGermanGray earthenware with incised decoration
2nd-3rd century CEChineseStoneware with celadon glaze over inlaid decoration
13th-14th centuryKorean