Beaker with Scale Pattern
Rhenish (Cologne), Gallo-Roman, 1st Century · 1–100 CE · Cleveland Museum of Art
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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. 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.
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- Maker
- Rhenish (Cologne), Gallo-Roman, 1st Century
- Date
- 1–100 CE
- Medium
- reddish ware with dark gray burnished slip
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 10.2 cm (4 in.); Overall: 11.2 cm (4 7/16 in.)
- Place of origin
- Rhenish (Cologne)
- Held by
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · On view · 103 Roman
- Credit line
- Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Rainer Zietz
Image: Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0