Pot with Cover (100–200 CE): Art, History and Details

Pot with Cover (100–200 CE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

This elegant pot with its matching lid was made using a potter’s wheel, evident from the subtle horizontal rings that are visible across the belly of the vessel. The vertical ribs were added after the pot was removed from the wheel, using a thick clay paste. The vessel’s lid suggests that it was used for storage.

Object facts

• Title: Pot with Cover
• Date: 100–200 CE
• Culture: Rhenish (Cologne), Gallo-Roman, 2nd century
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: tan ware with gray and some brown burnished slip
• Dimensions: Diameter: 15.6 cm (6 1/8 in.); Overall: 13.1 cm (5 3/16 in.); Lid: 2.2 x 9.8 cm (7/8 x 3 7/8 in.)
• Collection: GR - Roman
• Department: Greek and Roman Art
• Accession number: 1992.127

A detail from the museum

The shiny surface of this pot was made using a technique called burnishing, performed by polishing a surface with a hard, smooth object.

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1992." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 2 (1993): 38-79.

View the collection record

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