Bucchero Jug

Title: Bucchero Jug
Inventory Number: A0026
Date Acquired: 1955
Source: Carucci Collection
Provenance: Italy
From Date: -599
To Date: -500
Description: Small jug with offset funnel neck and out-turned rim on low offset base; high-swung handle of circular section from shoulder to top of rim; burnished in and out.
State of Preservation: Slight chipping on edge of base. Water stained with greenish incrustation, ?from association with bronze, concentrated on rim neck and body to one side of handle; some encrustation probably earth below handle, on underside of base and on interior.
Height: to handle 9.25cm to rim 7.51 cm
Max Diameter: 5.92 cm
Rim Diameter: 4.49 cm
Base Diameter: 3.58 cm
Color: Surface ca metallic N5/ (gray).
Type: vessel
Material: fired clay