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Oinochoe (wine pitcher)
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An impasto pitcher fired dark gray to medium brown; recomposed from large fragments. Rotelles (one restored in plaster) frame the handle attachment at the rim; the lower end of the handle terminates in a leaf-like shape with vertical incisions.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Excavated from Tomb V Poggio Sommavilla Italy by Fausto Benedetti Italy (1896-1897) sold; to Joseph Clark Hoppin Boston (1897-?). Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton Boston MA and Miss Margaret Norton Cambridge MA (by 1920) gift; to the Fogg Museum 1920.
Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908).
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of the Misses Norton
Title: Oinochoe (wine pitcher)
Description:
An impasto pitcher fired dark gray to medium brown; recomposed from large fragments.
Rotelles (one restored in plaster) frame the handle attachment at the rim; the lower end of the handle terminates in a leaf-like shape with vertical incisions.
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Title: East Greek Oinochoe Wine Jug
Owner: Harvard University Art Museums
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