The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of November 14, 2025
Globular Pot
25–50 CE
Diameter: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.); Overall: 20.5 cm (8 1/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1992.124
Location: 103 Roman
Did You Know?
This pot’s decoration was applied using the barbotine method, in which a reed or horn is used to pipe clay slip onto the surface.Description
This pot is decorated with a pattern of leaves arranged in two rows, separated by parallel lines of dots. The vessel was thrown on a potter’s wheel and covered in a dark slip, leaving about two inches above the foot bare. After the Romans occupied Gaul (modern day France and Belgium) in the 1st century BCE, pots like this one with dark brown or black slips became increasingly popular in the northern provinces of the Roman Empire.- Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1992." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 2 (1993): 38-79. Reproduced: p. 41; Mentioned: p. 41, 65 www.jstor.org
- Selected Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 11, 1993).CMA 1993: "Selected Acquisitions," Bull., 80 (Feb. 1993), p. 65, no. 7, repr. p. 41
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1992.124