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Bucchero Chalice

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Short wide fluted black cup on tall narrow stem that fans out at base. Pairs of incised lines at bottom of fluting, at base of cup and at mid-way point on stem. Incised patterning on foot consists of v-shaped pattern inside pair of incised lines. From the underside, foot is hollow and part-way into stem.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics From the collection of Lilian and Benjamin Hertzberg. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Benjamin and Lilian Hertzberg
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Title: Bucchero Chalice
Description:
Short wide fluted black cup on tall narrow stem that fans out at base.
Pairs of incised lines at bottom of fluting, at base of cup and at mid-way point on stem.
Incised patterning on foot consists of v-shaped pattern inside pair of incised lines.
From the underside, foot is hollow and part-way into stem.

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