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Source Description
Nearly cylindrical with a vertical ring handle, this vessel looks like a modern cup for tea or coffee—drinks not known in the classical world. Although the shape is unusual for an ancient drinking vessel, other examples exist, and the manufacture is typical. Turned on a wheel, the cup has a flat base and seven applied fillets adorning the exterior. Its black-gloss coating derives from the same firing technology used for black-figure and red-figure decoration.
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Document identity
localId
155864
label
Black-Gloss Mug
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object
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Source metadata
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155864
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object
title
Black-Gloss Mug
description
Nearly cylindrical with a vertical ring handle, this vessel looks like a modern cup for tea or coffee—drinks not known in the classical world. Although the shape is unusual for an ancient drinking vessel, other examples exist, and the manufacture is typical. Turned on a wheel, the cup has a flat base and seven applied fillets adorning the exterior. Its black-gloss coating derives from the same firing technology used for black-figure and red-figure decoration.
date
late 400s–300s BCE
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60759320
genreSpecific
Ceramic
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Diameter: 7.6 cm (3 in.); Overall: 6.9 cm (2 11/16 in.); Diameter of foot: 8 cm (3 1/8 in.)
cul
South Italian
accession
1991.167
Source extras
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ceramic
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Black-Gloss Mug, late 400s–300s BCE. South Italian. Ceramic; diameter: 7.6 cm (3 in.); overall: 6.9 cm (2 11/16 in.); diameter of foot: 8 cm (3 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Anonymous gift in honor of the Museum's seventy-fifth anniversary, 1991.167
collection
GR - Greek
didYouKnow
The black-gloss finish of this mug derives from fired clay slip, not black pigment.
citations
citation
Beazley Archive. n.d. <em>Beazley Archive Pottery Database</em>. Oxford: Beazley Archive.
page_number
BAPD 1002953
citation
Sotheby's (Firm). <em>Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman and Western Asiatic Antiquities and Islamic Works of Art</em>. 1991.
page_number
no. 76
citation
Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1992.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 80, no. 2 (February 1993): 38–79.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 65, no. 9
citation
Neils, Jenifer, and Gisela Walberg. <em>Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>[Cleveland, OH]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.
page_number
p. 61, pl. 105.5
creditline
Anonymous gift in honor of the Museum's seventy-fifth anniversary
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2026-05-29 08:06:00.427000
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155864
dept
Greek and Roman Art
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GR - Greek
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ceramic
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