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Handleless cup
Italic, Etruscan
Archaic Period
Mid 6th century B.C.
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Bucchero
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Henry P. Kidder
Accession Number80.536
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 652.
DescriptionHigh foot with deep bowl. Steep wall, with upper part of wall modelled to form shallow flutes, with vertical knobs or bosses on the rim at their junctions. Four frontal protomes of female heads, from the same mold, with three rows of locks on either side of the face. Molding below and an echinus molding at junction of wall and underside, covered with oblique rows of impressed notches.
On the stem, frontal Gorgon, the details of which are difficult to make out. She holds what is likely a winged horse in each hand. On the top of the base are a series of frontal lion heads stamped in relief.
On the stem, frontal Gorgon, the details of which are difficult to make out. She holds what is likely a winged horse in each hand. On the top of the base are a series of frontal lion heads stamped in relief.
ProvenanceSaid to be from Chiusi; by 1880: H. P. Kidder Collection; gift of H. P. Kidder to MFA, October 21, 1880