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"Caster Ware" Vase with Hunt Scene
mid-100s CE
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
Did You Know?
“Hunt cups” like this one were a specialty of artisans working in Roman Cologne during the 2nd century CE.Description
The wide body of this vase is decorated with a hunting scene in which a stag, doe, hare, and hound chase each other around the vessel. Dotted lines above and below the animals form a border around the scene, though the heads of the creatures occasionally poke above it. While larger barbotine decorations were usually mold made and applied to a leather-hard surface, the figures on our pot were piped on by hand.- 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. 4, repr. p. 41
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1992.126