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Mold for Arretine bowl
Roman
Augustan Period
late 1st century B.C.
Medium/Technique
Ceramic
Dimensions
Height x diameter: 10 x 19 cm (3 15/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Edward Perry Warren
Accession NumberRES.08.33c
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsTools and equipment – Molds
Catalogue Raisonné
Arretine Pottery (MFA), no. 039.
DescriptionVase, mold for Arretine bowl, fourteen fragments, including various joins making 5 pieces (see Chase 1975, pl. 48 for earlier join of 3 fragments which came apart). At rim, row of dots above ovolo pattern. Ithyphallic herms with youthful heads separating symplegmatic scenes; below, row of concentric circles.
ProvenanceBy 1900: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: From Italy. Bought in 1900); 1908: gift of Edward Perry Waren to MFA; accessioned 1910