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 work and its context

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

Showing a young man and woman reclining, probably at a symposium, this fragment comes from a mold that would have been used to produce relief-decorated terracotta bowls. For less affluent consumers, such products may have served as affordable alternatives to costlier versions made with precious metal.

Object facts

• Title: Fragment of a Mold for Arretine Bowl
• Date: 27 BCE–14 CE
• Culture: Italy, Roman
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: terracotta
• Dimensions: Overall: 5.2 cm (2 1/16 in.)
• Collection: GR - Roman
• Department: Greek and Roman Art
• Accession number: 1916.2010

A detail from the museum

Arretine ware takes its name from Arretium (modern Arezzo, Italy), a major production site.

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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