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"Caster Ware" Vase with Hunt Scene

mid-100s CE
reddish ware with black burnished slip and Barbotine decoration
Diameter: 14.2 cm (5 9/16 in.); Overall: 14.2 cm (5 9/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1992.126
Location: 103 Roman
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Around and around the animals go, caught in a perpetual cycle of being hunted.

Description

The work of Roman potters is very different from that of their Greek predecessors. Greek clay had allowed potters to throw thin-walled ceramics. Slips (paint) made from this clay had permitted painters to draw complicated scenes and figures with infinite care. As the Roman empire grew to include Germany and Britain, local clays found there were better for producing heavier pottery with three-dimensional decoration like the vases shown here. These jars--decorated with a human face (1992.125), animals (1992.126), a feather pattern (1992.183), a wheat pattern (1992.124), and vertical ribs (1992.127,a) were probably filled with foods or liquids and given either as gifts to an elaborate burial or as offerings to a god's shrine.
"Caster Ware" Vase with Hunt Scene

"Caster Ware" Vase with Hunt Scene

mid-100s CE

Rhenish (Cologne), Gallo-Roman, mid-2nd Century

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