Roman Barbotine Beaker

Culture: [Roman](http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300020541) Material: Ceramic Dims: H 8.2cm Accession No: MG 137B Current Location: [The Hunt Museum](https://www.huntmuseum.com/) [Limerick](https://www.geonames.org/7778675/limerick-city.html) A bag-shaped beaker with rounded profile, slightly incurved conical base, narrow foot and cornice rim. A fine white ware with black coating decorated with a trailed slip ([barbotine](http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300257360) technique) of raised motifs, a hound chasing a hare, dots and frieze of leaves. This is [Cologne](http://www.geonames.org/2886242/koeln.html) ware dating to the second or third-century AD with a distribution in the Rhineland and Britain. [More](https://www.huntmuseum.com/explore/item/5b3ad5a0-1daf-33f0-8ab2-fac089f7daff/?s%3Dbarbotine&pos=3). Source: Objaverse 1.0 / Sketchfab