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Handless cup with four women as supports
Italic, Etruscan
Orientalizing Period
625-575 B.C.
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Bucchero
Dimensions
Height: 18.3 cm (7 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number00.367
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 647.
DescriptionHandless cup or chalice with a central stem which reaches just below the bottom of the bowl. Bowl with tall lip and carination on the lower body, with a band of tooling marking the carination. Two horizontal grooves below the rim and three more grooves near the middle of the wall. Between the two grooved sections impressed open fans alternative with three impressed closed fans.
Four caryatid supports in flat openwork. All four figures are female and raise their arms to support rectangular struts attached the bowl at the carination. One of the figures is winged and possibly nude. The other three where long garments with acorn-shaped designs.
Four caryatid supports in flat openwork. All four figures are female and raise their arms to support rectangular struts attached the bowl at the carination. One of the figures is winged and possibly nude. The other three where long garments with acorn-shaped designs.
ProvenanceBy 1900: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: Rome); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, February 1900