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Two-handled jar (amphora)
Italic, Etruscan
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Bucchero
Dimensions
43.5 cm (17 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of J. J. Dixwell
Accession Number76.201
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 670.
DescriptionAbove each handle is an archaic mask. On the shoulder is an egg-and-dart pattern; a scroll pattern, below which is a band of pendants interrupted on each side by a head in high relief.
ProvenanceBy 1875: in a public collection in Chiusi; sold at public sale in Florence to J. J. Dixwell (said to be from Chiusi); gift of J. J. Dixwell to MFA, March 1876