{"product_id":"ancient-etruscan-c-500-bce-bucchero-pottery-shard-with-bunny","title":"Ancient Etruscan (c. 500 BCE) Bucchero Pottery Shard with Bunny!","description":"\u003cp\u003eSometimes I really feel the call to hold something ancient in my hands, even if just for a few moments--and this, an ancient Etruscan black clay pottery shard from around 500 BCE, spoke loudly and directly to me across all those years with this little about-to-leap rabbit on its rim! How to resist a bunny, especially one thousands of years old??? I purchased it from a favorite shop in Vermont--a beautifully curated and arranged sprawling trove of treasures--and know it came from an old private collection in the U.S.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis burnished black clay fragment, showing gray on the sides, is an example of Bucchero, often considered the signature ceramic of the Etruscans--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eindigenous, pre-Roman people of the Italian peninsula. The term bucchero derives from the Spanish term \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ebúcaro\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Portuguese: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003epucaro\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), meaning either a ceramic jar or a type of aromatic clay. The main period of bucchero production and use stretches from the seventh to the fifth centuries BCE and included tablewares made mostly for elite consumption. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eApprox 3\" t x 1 1\/4\" w. 3 1\/2\" t on custom stand, included. Better in person, just wonderful. Rich black surface, with some burnishing\/surface loss along top edge and some surface cracking around the bunny (shot with several times magnification; to the eye, reads crisp and clear.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"critical EYE Finds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54323008962923,"sku":"huk1793832760233","price":126.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0992\/4028\/0427\/files\/ancient-etruscan-c-500-bce-bucchero-pottery-shard-with-bunny_1.jpg?v=1793832792","url":"https:\/\/gemtireinflator.shop\/products\/ancient-etruscan-c-500-bce-bucchero-pottery-shard-with-bunny","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}