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Fragmentary bowl with Cupid on a column between couples making love

Roman
Early Imperial period
late 1st century B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Italy, Tuscany, Arretium (modern Arezzo)

Medium/Technique Ceramic, Arretine ware
Dimensions Height x diameter: 14 x 10.6 cm (5 1/2 x 4 3/16 in.)
Overall: 19.1 x 15.9 x 8.3 cm (7 1/2 x 6 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Edward Perry Warren
Accession Number13.109
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsVessels

Catalogue Raisonné Arretine Pottery (MFA), no. 053.
DescriptionTwo coitus groups. Between them, Eros on a pillar. Thirteen fragments joined together. Foot missing.
ProvenanceBy 1912: with E. P. Warren; gift of E. P. Warren to MFA, January 2, 1913