Cleveland Museum of Art

"Caster Ware" Vase with Hunt Scene

Date

mid-100s CE

Medium

reddish ware with black burnished slip and Barbotine decoration

Culture

Rhenish (Cologne), Gallo-Roman, mid-2nd Century

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

The wide body of this vase is decorated with a hunting scene in which a stag, doe, hare, and hound chase each other around the vessel. Dotted lines above and below the animals form a border around the scene, though the heads of the creatures occasionally poke above it. While larger barbotine decorations were usually mold made and applied to a leather-hard surface, the figures on our pot were piped on by hand. “Hunt cups” like this one were a specialty of artisans working in Roman Cologne during the 2nd century CE.

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