Bucchero Skyphos

Title: Bucchero Skyphos
Inventory Number: A0025
Date Acquired: 1988
Source: Gift from Estate of Mary Grant
Provenance: Italy
From Date: -625
To Date: -575
Description: Bowl with incurving shoulder & tall flaring rim on short pedestal base; slightly uptilted handles attached at shoulder. Two incised horizontal bands on shoulder. Burnished interior and exterior.
State of Preservation: Crack from rim into shoulder; sporadic chipping of rim & base. White encrustation on int; Much wear of ext surface.
Height: 8.45 cm
Max Diameter: 18 cm
Rim Diameter: 13.12 cm
Base Diameter: 6.44 cm
Color: Clay body & surface 10YR 3/1 (very dark gray); encrustation ca 10YR 8/1 (white)
Type: vessel
Material: fired clay