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Kantharos (drinking cup)
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This kantharos (cup with two vertical handles) is made of bucchero, a type of pottery fired black, and is embellished with a frieze of animals and monsters in relief. A chimera is followed by a griffin, a wild goat, horse, and sphinx. The repeating pattern was created by rolling a cylindrical stamp over the vessel’s surface before it was completely dry, a technique referred to as "rouletting". The polish and relief decoration of bucchero vessels evoke metal.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
John Kirtland Wright New York (by 1917-1969) by descent; to his daughter Mary Wolcott Wright Toynbee Salt Spring Island British Columbia (1969-2014) gift; to the Harvard Art Museums 2014.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Mary Wright Toynbee and her cousin Benjamin Tappan Wright in honor of their grandfather John Henry Wright and of his son Mary's father John Kirtland Wright
Title: Kantharos (drinking cup)
Description:
This kantharos (cup with two vertical handles) is made of bucchero, a type of pottery fired black, and is embellished with a frieze of animals and monsters in relief.
A chimera is followed by a griffin, a wild goat, horse, and sphinx.
The repeating pattern was created by rolling a cylindrical stamp over the vessel’s surface before it was completely dry, a technique referred to as "rouletting".
The polish and relief decoration of bucchero vessels evoke metal.
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