| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1960 363 | |
| Title: | ARCHAIC MAIOLICA PITCHER | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1960 | |
| Object Number: | 363 | |
| Description: | Pitcher with tall body making slight compound curve from convex to concave, and flaring slightly at upper break. | |
| Decoration: | White tin glaze on ground, now gray; 3 thin manganese vertical lines divide body into at least 2 panels: at rt., edges of 2 manganese V's; to lt., a curling mangenese stem that loops from rt. to lt. to rt., with small black leaves, and parts of 3 flowers; these consist of a light blue open circle, filled with black open "drops", with fringed perimeter and curling black stems. Yellowish lead glaze inside. | |
| Material: | Fine very pale brown clay with rare spherical rounded gray inclusions and few platy rounded voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | 10YR 8/3 (very pale brown) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Four joining frgts. preserving body profile from below median to neck; 1/6-1/8 circumference. | |
| Manufacture: | WM | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.140 W00.082 | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Second half 13th c. | |
| Area: | Forum southwest | |
| Context: | Forum southwest, From built compartment in foundations at NE corner | |
| Provenance: | Central or Northen Italy. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Forum southwest Image: bw 1997 030 09 Basket: Forum southwest, From built compartment in foundations at NE corner |
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