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Source Description
<em>Guttus</em> is a Latin word referring to a small vessel with vertical spout and ring handle, probably used for pouring small amounts of precious liquids. Often, mold-made ceramic <em>gutti </em>take the form of animals, with realistic painted decoration. Here, the lifelike frog features black stripes and alternating black and white circles.
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Document identity
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152313
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Frog-Shaped Guttus (Oil Flask)
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152313
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title
Frog-Shaped Guttus (Oil Flask)
description
<em>Guttus</em> is a Latin word referring to a small vessel with vertical spout and ring handle, probably used for pouring small amounts of precious liquids. Often, mold-made ceramic <em>gutti </em>take the form of animals, with realistic painted decoration. Here, the lifelike frog features black stripes and alternating black and white circles.
date
300s BCE
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60754453
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Ceramic
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Diameter: 1.5 cm (9/16 in.); Overall: 5.8 x 11.2 x 9.1 cm (2 5/16 x 4 7/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
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South Italian, Apulian
accession
1985.176
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Frog-Shaped Guttus (Oil Flask), 300s BCE. South Italian, Apulian. Ceramic; diameter: 1.5 cm (9/16 in.); overall: 5.8 x 11.2 x 9.1 cm (2 5/16 x 4 7/16 x 3 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Keith P. Smith, 1985.176
collection
GR - South Italy
didYouKnow
The philosopher Plato famously compared the Greeks living along Mediterranean coastlines to “frogs around a pond.”
citations
citation
Beazley Archive. n.d. <em>Beazley Archive Pottery Database</em>. Oxford: Beazley Archive.
page_number
BAPD 1002931
citation
Kozloff, Arielle P. "Two South Italian Vases: Fish Plate and Frog Bottle." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 73, no. 10 (1986): 406-14.
page_number
Figs. 8-10.
url
www.jstor.org/stable/25159967.
citation
Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1985." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 73, no. 2 (1986)
page_number
p. 62, 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. 55, pl. 100.4-5
citation
<em>Le sanglier et le satyre: vases plastiques hellénistiques de Grande Grèce et de Sicile.</em> Kilchberg/Zürich: Akanthus, 2015.
page_number
Mentioned: P. 116, no A339
creditline
Gift of Keith P. Smith
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2026-05-29 07:52:16.652000
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152313
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Greek and Roman Art
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GR - South Italy
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ceramic
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