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Phiale (South Italian Calenian ware)

Phiale (South Italian Calenian ware)
 3rd century BCE

Medium
earthenware
Measurements
3.9 × 19.7 diameter
Place/s of Execution
Calvi, Italy
Accession Number
271-D5
Department
Antiquities
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1961
© Public Domain
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
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Gallery location
18th Century Decorative Arts - Great Hall Costume Corridor
Level 2, NGV International
Physical description
Shallow, metallic black-glazed bowl with an impressed decoration of lotus and palmette in two registers. Around the central boss is a circular pattern of dots. Black-glazed all over (a metallic lustre) except for the underside of the central boss, which reveals a pink-buff clay.