A catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (Band 1) (London, 1851)

CATALOGUE

OF

VASES.

EARLY ITALIAN WARE.

1. Oval Vase. i. Height 13 in. Length 15 in. Coarse
brown ware. In the form of the Tugurhtm or rustic cottage
of the early inhabitants of Italy. At one end is a moveable
door flanked by perpendicular ridges and grooves, which per-
haps represent fluted pilasters. On each side of the roof are
five ribs meeting at the top of the ridge, and at each end, under
a pointed projection is an object like an E inverted, thus, PI.
The surface of the vase appears to have been painted, as traces
of a rude majander pattern remain in several places. The in-
terior is filled with burnt bones. This interesting specimen of
the earliest Italian Fictile Art was found in 1817 in the Monte
Albano near the road from Castel Gandolfo to Marino, about
thirteen miles from Rome. Presented by W. R. Hamilton,
Esq., to whom it tvas given by Canova, in the year 1821.

2. Amphora, ii. 10| inch. Coarse brown ware; archaic;
on each side is a small knob between two chevrons.

Christie, Vignette, p. 135.

3.------------ ii. 6f in. Coarse brown ware; archaic; on

each side two chevrons. H.

D'Hancarville, IV. PI. 70.

4. --------■— in- 7 in. Coarse brown ware; archaic; on

each side two circular bosses. H.

D'Hancarville, II. PI. 95.

5. ------------ in. 7 in. Coarse brown ware; archaic.

6. ------------ ii. 5 in. Coarse brown ware; archaic;

on each side two vertical bars.