Early Roman Imperial Terracotta Beaker

Culture: Roman

Period: late 1st century B.C.

Material: Terracotta

Dimensions: 10.4 cm high

Price: Sold

Ref: 3699

Provenance: Austrian private collection Prof. Josef Mairitsch (1938-1994) with the inventory number 39. Acquired between 1960 and the early 1980s. Thence in a family estate. With an old collection note.

Condition: Intact

Description: Perfectly preserved, thin-walled terracotta drinking cup dating to the Augustan period. The beaker worked out on the potter’s wheel is decorated with finely encircling incised lines and has traces of red glazing in places. The deep cup stands on a flat base with concentrical circles. The body with an oval form, above a bent and a massive outward curved rim. These oval clay beakers were mostly produced in Italy. See for the type the beaker in the Metropolitan Museum of Art with the object number 18.145.30.