Fragment of a Mold for Arretine Bowl (27 BCE–14 CE): Art, History and Details

Fragment of a Mold for Arretine Bowl (27 BCE–14 CE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is M. Perennius (Roman, c. 100 BCE–100 CE).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Preserving nearly half of a mold for a relief-decorated terracotta bowl, these joining fragments show women and youths reclining at a symposium. On one side, a woman passes a bowl or cup to a youth, whom another youth reaches over to crown with a garland or wreath. A third youth reclines beside them, and a second woman sits on the next couch, looking away and holding a lyre on her raised knee. Above, within a stamped rectangle, appears the signature M. PERENN | TIGAANI.

Object facts

• Title: Fragment of a Mold for Arretine Bowl
• Date: 27 BCE–14 CE
• Creator attribution: M. Perennius (Roman, c. 100 BCE–100 CE)
• Culture: Italy, Roman, Augustan period
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: terracotta
• Dimensions: Overall: 14.6 cm (5 3/4 in.)
• Collection: GR - Roman
• Department: Greek and Roman Art
• Accession number: 1916.2009

A detail from the museum

This mold includes an artist signature, reversed to appear properly in the final product.

Collection credit

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust

Further reading listed by the museum

• Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive.
• Boulter, C. G, Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, [united States of America], The Cleveland Museum of Art. Fasc. 15. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1971.

View the collection record

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