Cleveland Museum of Art

Globular Pot

Date

25–50 CE

Medium

gray ware with black burnished slip and Barbotine decoration

Culture

Rhenish (Cologne), Gallo-Roman, 2nd quarter 1st Century

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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. 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.

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