Rhenish (Cologne), Gallo-Roman, 2nd quarter 1st Century / 25–50 CE
Globular Pot
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs Globular Pot as ceramic (Rhenish (Cologne), Gallo-Roman, 2nd quarter 1st Century · 25–50 CE).
This pot’s decoration was applied using the barbotine method, in which a reed or horn is used to pipe clay slip onto the surface.
A CLOSER LOOK
The museum identifies this ceramic as gray ware with black burnished slip and Barbotine decoration.
The museum's collection notes: This pot is decorated with a pattern of leaves arranged in two rows, separated by parallel lines of dots. The vessel was thrown on a potter’s wheel and covered in a dark slip, leaving about two inches above the foot bare. After the Romans occupied Gaul (modern day France and Belgium) in the 1st century BCE, pots like this one with dark brown or black slips became increasingly popular in the northern provinces of the Roman Empire.
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