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Guttus (Greek black-glaze ware)

GREECE, Attica or ITALY
Guttus (Greek black-glaze ware)
 4th century BCE

Medium
earthenware

Measurements
8.0 × 11.7 × 11.5 cm

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1933

Reproduction requests

Gallery location
Gallery 13
Level 3, NGV Australia

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Libibaeum, Sicily

Accession Number
3425F-D3

Department
Antiquities

This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Dame Carol Colburn-Grigor CBE through Metal Manufactures Limited

Physical description
Black-glazed, ring-handled vessel with a narrow spout at a diagonal angle. A squat, closed body with a central recess surrounded by a ridge and pierced with five holes. The body is decorated with five vertical, broad incisions left reserved in the natural clay colour of pink/buff. The underside of the plain ring foot is also reserved.

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