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Lot Essay
Cf. G. Bartoloni, Le tombe da Poggio Buco nel Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze, Florence, 1972 and L. Donati - M. Michelucci, La collezione Ciacci nel Museo Archeologico di Grosseto, Rome, 1981.
In the 6th century B.C., as Rome's influence increased in Southern Etruria, production centres of bucchero moved northwards to the cities of Chiusi and Vulci. A new type of vessel originated there, known as bucchero pesante, heavy bucchero, of squatter shape and with thicker walls, decorated with applied mould-formed figures to the still damp surface. The orientalizing style of the faces on this dinos may indicate a production centre in the hinterland of Vulci, in the Fiora Valley.
In the 6th century B.C., as Rome's influence increased in Southern Etruria, production centres of bucchero moved northwards to the cities of Chiusi and Vulci. A new type of vessel originated there, known as bucchero pesante, heavy bucchero, of squatter shape and with thicker walls, decorated with applied mould-formed figures to the still damp surface. The orientalizing style of the faces on this dinos may indicate a production centre in the hinterland of Vulci, in the Fiora Valley.