A significant amount of Attic pottery was produced for the export to Etruria. Indigenous Etruscan shapes were reinterpreted in Athenian workshops; the Hellenized variants then sold to Etruscan patrons in the west and often buried in their tombs. The Etruscan prototypes generally exist in the sturdy black ware called bucchero. This pair of stands represents the phenomenon of adaptation with a shape unique in Attic vase-painting. They probably held floral or vegetal offerings.
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Title:Terracotta stand
Period:Archaic
Date:ca. 520 BCE
Culture:Greek, Attic
Medium:Terracotta; red-figure
Dimensions:H. 10 1/4 in. (26 cm)
Classification:Vases
Credit Line:Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norbert Schimmel, 1980
Object Number:1980.537
From before 1971 and until 1980, collection of Mr. and Mrs. Norbert Schimmel; acquired in 1980, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norbert Schimmel.
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Muscarella, Oscar White. 1974. Ancient Art: The Norbert Schimmel Collection no. 58, Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern.
von Bothmer, Dietrich, Joan R. Mertens, and Maxwell L. Anderson. 1980. "Greek and Roman Art." Notable Acquisitions (Metropolitan Museum of Art), No. 1980/1981: p. 14.
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Milleker, Elizabeth J. 1992. "Ancient Art: Gifts from The Norbert Schimmel Collection: Greek and Roman." Bulletin of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 49(4): pp. 43–44.
Sparkes, Brian. 2000. "Sikanos and the Stemmed Plate." Periplous: Papers on Classical Art and Archaeology Presented to Sir John Boardman, Mr. Gocha R. Tsetskhladze, A. J. N. W. Prag, and Anthony M. Snodgrass, eds. pp. 323–4 n. 3, fig. 3, London: Thames and Hudson.
Cohen, Beth. 2006. The Colors of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases no. 73, pp. 254–57, Malibu: J. Paul Getty Trust.
Mertens, Joan R. 2010. How to Read Greek Vases. no. 21b, pp. 24, 109–11, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
de Puma, Richard Daniel. 2013. Etruscan Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 310 [p. 105 n. 123], fig. 5, New Haven and London: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Karoglou, Kyriaki. 2018. "Dangerous Beauty : Medusa in Classical Art." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 75(3): pp. 28–29, fig. 41.
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