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| Keywords: Roman - Jug with Birds - Walters 48104 - Three Quarter Left.jpg The form and the single handle suggest that this jug was used for pouring wine It is decorated in the barbotine technique where a liquid clay or slip is applied in relief through a tube much like icing is applied to a cake Here two stork-like birds are facing a large plant in the middle framed by a garland of ivy leaves around the neck of the jug Such idyllic scenes with animals and plants are typical of ceramic and metal vessels made during the time of Emperor Augustus century 1 BC - century 1 AD Augustan terracotta cm 21 4 12 4 accession number 48 104 26930 Dikran Kelekian New York and Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1914 place of origin Samsun in present-day Turkey Walters Art Museum license Ancient Roman art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
