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Source Description
This pot is decorated with a pattern of leaves arranged in two rows, separated by parallel lines of dots. The vessel was thrown on a potter’s wheel and covered in a dark slip, leaving about two inches above the foot bare. After the Romans occupied Gaul (modern day France and Belgium) in the 1st century BCE, pots like this one with dark brown or black slips became increasingly popular in the northern provinces of the Roman Empire.
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Document identity
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156288
label
Globular Pot
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object
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156288
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object
title
Globular Pot
description
This pot is decorated with a pattern of leaves arranged in two rows, separated by parallel lines of dots. The vessel was thrown on a potter’s wheel and covered in a dark slip, leaving about two inches above the foot bare. After the Romans occupied Gaul (modern day France and Belgium) in the 1st century BCE, pots like this one with dark brown or black slips became increasingly popular in the northern provinces of the Roman Empire.
date
25–50 CE
rights
CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60755513
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Ceramic
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Diameter: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.); Overall: 20.5 cm (8 1/16 in.)
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Rhenish (Cologne), Gallo-Roman, 2nd quarter 1st Century
accession
1992.124
Source extras
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gray ware with black burnished slip and Barbotine decoration
tombstone
Globular Pot, 25–50 CE. Rhenish (Cologne), Gallo-Roman, 2nd quarter 1st Century. Gray ware with black burnished slip and Barbotine decoration; diameter: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.); overall: 20.5 cm (8 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1992.124
collection
GR - Roman
didYouKnow
This pot’s decoration was applied using the barbotine method, in which a reed or horn is used to pipe clay slip onto the surface.
citations
citation
Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1992." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 80, no. 2 (1993): 38-79.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 41; Mentioned: p. 41, 65
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John L. Severance Fund
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2026-05-29 08:07:49.735000
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156288
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Greek and Roman Art
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GR - Roman
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gray ware with black burnished slip and Barbotine decoration
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