id: 156291 accession number: 1992.127 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.127 updated: 2019-06-05 09:28:00.582000 Pot with Cover, 100s. Rhenish (Cologne), Gallo-Roman, 2nd century. Tan ware with gray and some brown burnished slip; 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1992.127 title: Pot with Cover title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 100s creation date earliest: 100 creation date latest: 200 current location: 103 Roman creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Rhenish (Cologne), Gallo-Roman, 2nd century technique: tan ware with gray and some brown burnished slip department: Greek and Roman Art collection: GR - Roman type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Selected Acquisitions opening date: 1993-02-09T05:00:00 Selected Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 11, 1993). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: The work of Roman potters is very different from that of their Greek predecessors. Greek clay had allowed potters to throw thin-walled ceramics. Slips (paint) made from this clay had permitted painters to draw complicated scenes and figures with infinite care. As the Roman empire grew to include Germany and Britain, local clays found there were better for producing heavier pottery with three-dimensional decoration like the vases shown here. These jars--decorated with a human face (1992.125), animals (1992.126), a feather pattern (1992.183), a wheat pattern (1992.124), and vertical ribs (1992.127,a) were probably filled with foods or liquids and given either as gifts to an elaborate burial or as offerings to a god's shrine. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1992.127/1992.127_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1992.127/1992.127_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1992.127/1992.127_full.tif