Roman Period Blackware Bowl

CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

5 in. (274 grams, 12.5 cm wide).

Comprising a hemispherical black-glazed terracotta body with slightly everted rim, raised circumferential bands to the shoulder, small raised foot, flat bottom. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Acquired on the UK art market.
Property of a Ruislip, UK, gentleman, by inheritance.

Literature

See Curle, J., A Roman Frontier Post and its People, Glasgow, 1911, figs.30, pl.L, no.12, for similar.

Footnotes

The most interesting feature of this bowl is that its whole outline suggests that it has been copied from a Terra Sigillata bowl of type Dragendorff. The moulded figures of the decorated original were, however, probably outside of the craftsman's range, and in places the surface of the bowl is covered with a crudely executed ornamented band.

CONDITION

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