The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 13, 2025
Beaker with Scale Pattern
1–100 CE
(Cologne)
Diameter: 10.2 cm (4 in.); Overall: 11.2 cm (4 7/16 in.)
Location: 103 Roman
Did You Know?
Several textile fibers were found inside this beaker, suggesting that it may have contained an object or objects wrapped in cloth when it was buried.Description
The dark brown glaze on the exterior of this beaker is patchy and irregular, allowing the light red clay beneath to show through. The glaze is especially light on the ridges of the raised scales that decorate the upper body of the vessel, arranged in four offset rows. The pattern was created by applying thick clay slip to the surface of the beaker after it was removed from the potter’s wheel.- 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. 2, repr. p. 41
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1992.183