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Accession_Number

56.8.6

Shape

Stemmed dish; cup; kothon

Shape_description

Rounded cup with sharply incurving rim and shallow bowl, on a short hollow stem which broadens to a disk foot with a grooved foot, and deeply concave underside.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Etruscan

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

10YR 7/4 Pale brown clay, no inclusions or mica.

Decoration

Interior: black not carefully applied , not lustrous. Purple band towards the the edge framed by two thinner black bands. Exterior: around rim black band with white dots; Animal frieze on the bowl. Four swans (water birds), facing right, alternating with incised rosettes. Background filled with small decorative patterns of undefined shape that often bear incisions. Black band below. Black stem and upper surface of foot; reserved groove on vertical surface of foot; reserved underside. Added purple and white on the birds' wings and the rosettes.

Inscriptions

Condition

Stem appears to have been repaired just above foot. Small chip in rim and edge of the foot. White has faded at parts. Surface is in good condition.

Technique/Style

Polychrome; incised; Etrusco-Corinthian

Provenance

Period

High Archaic

Date

580-560

Dating_details

Artist

Rosoni Painter

Attribution

Szilágyi 1998, 347/228. For the Rosoni Painter, a 'third generation' member of the Vulci School, see also C. Albizzati, Vasi antichi dipinti del Vaticano II (Rome 1925) 48-49; J.D. Beazley, Raccolta Guglielmi (Vatican, CHECK 1939) 74 n. 84; G. Kubler, Some Etruscan Versions of Corinthian Ceramics', Marsyas 2 (1942) 9; W.L. Brown, The Etruscan Lion (Oxford 1960) 55-56, 57 n. 1; G. Colonna, 'Il ciclo etrusco-corinzio dei Rosoni', StEtr 29 (1961) 50-62; G. Colonna, 'La ceramica etrusco-corinzia e le problematica storica dell'Orientalizzante Recente', AC 13 (1961) 16-17 n. 8; D.A. Amyx, 'Some Etrusco-Corinthian Vase-Painters' in Studi Banti (1965) 3-4; D.A. Amyx, 'The Mingor Painter and others: Etrusco-Corinthian Addenda', StEtr 35 (1967) 101-104; Szilágyi 1975, 124-25; M. Martelli, 'Il ciclo Etrusco-Corinzio dei rosoni: qualche addendum, RivStLig 44 (1978, publ. 1983) 63-67; Amyx 1988, 696

Image

	Side view of an Etrusco-Corinthian stemmed cup, showing the design around the body.
	Side view of an Etrusco-Corinthian stemmed cup, showing the design around the body.
	Top view of an Etrusco-Corinthian stemmed cup, showing the interior and the mouth.
2003.97.0281.jpg	Side view of an Etrusco-Corinthian stemmed cup, showing the design around the body.
2003.97.0282.jpg	Side view of an Etrusco-Corinthian stemmed cup, showing the design around the body.
2003.97.0283.jpg	Top view of an Etrusco-Corinthian stemmed cup, showing the interior and the mouth.
2003.97.0284.jpg	View of the base of an Etrusco-Corinthian stemmed cup.
2004.12.0003.jpg	Side view of an Etrusco-Corinthian stemmed cup, showing a swan facing left.
2004.12.0004.jpg	Oblique view, from slightly above, of an Etrusco-Corinthian stemmed cup, showing a swan between rosettes.
2010.98.0101.jpg	Side view of an Etrusco-Corinthian stemmed cup, showing the design around the body.
2010.98.0102.jpg	Vew of the base of an Etrusco-Corinthian stemmed cup.
2010.98.0103.jpg	Top view of an Etrusco-Corinthian stemmed cup, showing the interior and the mouth.