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 |