Browse Items (42 total)

  • Tags: Food

Pitcher

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Yellow/green molded and slipped earthenware pitcher. Cylindrical, molded in shape of ear of corn with shucks and stalk. Handle in form of stalk, in green, forming long rectangle where attached to body. Corn slipped yellow and shucks in green. …

Plate

Molded and gilded whiteware child's plate. Small, scalloped edged plate with shell-edged molding on rim (follows scalloped edge). Gilding along lip and edge of well. Over glazed polychrome decal depicting two girls and a boy with a sled. Girl in…

Plate

Molded and gilded whiteware child's plate. White. Small, scalloped edge with shell edge, molding along rim (follows shelled edge). Gilding on lip and along edge of well. Polychrome decal over glaze depicts two girls and a boy with a goat cart. A…

Plate

Molded and gilded whiteware child's plate. Small, scalloped edge with shell edge; molding along rim (follows shelled edge); gilding on lip and along edge of well; polychrome decal over glaze depicts two girls and a boy with a goat cart. Girl in…

Tumbler

Color: blue/opalescent throughout.
Shape: cylindrical with straight walls. Flat rim. Flat base with around rim. Beneath is a horizontal band of 14 vertical bars that swirl to left at top and to the right at bottom. 3 horizontal bands of stars at…

Sherd, Rim

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Ceramic terra sigillata rim sherd.

Terracotta paste with red "glaze" (caused by only one oxidizing firing stage) decorative motif in relief of a Bacchic scene portion of a male figure and grapes.

Handle, Frying Pan

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Terracotta handle in form of horse's head.

Elongated face with modelled nose, mouth, eyes, ears and mane. Enlarged collar behind mane. Handle section with series of parallel incisions.

Cup

Hollow base; low spreading foot; high pedestal base; bowl of cup is hemispherical, then contracting, then slightly expanding to the rim of cup; cup is light brown in color.

Cup, Bucchero

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Ceramic bucchero cup. Spreading foot with concave base; short stem; convex body, slightly incurving at rim; engraved vertical lines on stem and lower body; molded horizontal lines on upper body. Gray clay fired to thick black glaze.

Vessel, Ritual Wine

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Bronze ceremonial vessel (possibly a wine cup or "jue") with tripod base (legs are approximately 9.5 cm). Vessel is deep, decorated with a meander-like pattern, partially covered with patina and has a wide, flaring neck or lip at each end, one…