Etruscan Vessels 

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Import restricted since 2001.

Section III.B.1.a of Designated List in force since 2011.

Decorated ceramic vessels produced by Etruscan culture, including Villanovan; Orientalizing pottery with imitations of Near Eastern designs painted on local hand-made vessels; archaic Etruscan painted pottery with polychrome decoration; archaic Etruscan painted pottery with polychrome decoration; funerary and cinerary vessels; Italo-Geometric pottery where production from local Etruscan workshops imitated Greek Geometric; bucchero made with a characteristic soft black paste and polished surface whose highly decorative shapes often imitate metal vessels; local imitations of black and red figure Attic; Etruscan imitations of Corinthian pottery; pottery with black glaze and orange stripes that imitates Ionic pottery; amphora in the Pontic style with painted figural decoration made by a single workshop of immigrant Ionic potters in Vulci, Etruria; Caeretan hydria attributed to a workshop of Greek immigrants working near Caere, Etruria. Approximate date: 9th century to 3rd century B.C.

For import restrictions in force from 2001, see History of Import Restrictions below.

Example shown: Etruscan bucchero kantharos (drinking cup); From Cerveteri, Lazio; Last quarter of the seventh century through the first quarter of the sixth century B.C.; National Roman Museum at the Baths of Diocletian