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Jug
Italic, Etruscan
Late Orientalizing
Late 7th century B.C.
Medium/Technique
Ceramic
Dimensions
26.8 cm (10 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number13.71
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 494.
DescriptionClay reddish; neck, mouth and handle painted black. Three bands: upper, a lion biting a grazing stag; middle, a geometric pattern of triangles and clusters of dots; lower, lions and stags. Details incised. Colors black and purple. Italo-Corinthian style.
ProvenanceBy 1877: W. S. Bigelow Collection (loaned to MFA [loan 116, Big. 24]); gift of W. S. Bigelow to MFA, Jan. 2, 1913