Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup)

Title: Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup)
Description: The tall, flaring handles with struts and notched decoration indicate the influence of metallic prototypes. Impressed designs resembling fans, made with a comb-like device, are typical of this period. Archaeologists generally divide bucchero pottery into two basic types, bucchero pesante (heavy) and, as exemplified here, bucchero sottile (light), which tends to be finer, thinner, and more delicate. Archaic period, ca. 650-600 BCE.
Creator: Etruscan (culture or style)
Date Created: earliest: 650 BCE; latest: 600 BCE
Date: 1921
Identifier: 21.88.146
Medium: terracotta (clay material); Bucchero (pottery style)
Format: Vases; H. with handles 12 in. (30.5 cm)
diameter 10 1/4 in. (26 cm)
Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Source: Rogers Fund, 1921
Rights: https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/open-access
Contributor: Etruscan (culture or style)
Subject: Archaic; Greek and Roman Art; terracotta (clay material); drinking vessels; kantharoi; libation vases; Vessels; Europe; Italy; Etruscan; Bucchero (pottery style)