
Containers and Vessels
Ceramic | Terracotta | Fired Clay
Italy
Government of the Republic of Italy
Import restricted since 2001.
Section III.B.1.b of Designated List in force since 2011.
Decorated vessels locally produced, including hand-made Daunian pottery from northern Apulia; Italiote red figure pottery of Attic derivation produced in Apulian, Lucania, Campania, and Paestum; wheel-made pottery with elaborate applied relief and painted decoration made in Centuripe, Catania; pottery with plastic and polychrome decoration produced in Sicily and Magna Graecia; gilded pottery with a characteristic ochre yellow color imitating artifacts in bronze, mainly found in tombs in Apulia; Faliscan pottery in imitation of Attic red figure, often in oversize vessels; Gnathian pottery, named after Egnatia in Apulia and decorated in white and yellow with touches of red over a black background; overpainted pottery with a shiny black glaze; pottery overpainted with white, yellow, or red designs in imitation of Attic red figure; Messapian pottery, locally produced in Apulia and decorated with monochrome (one color) or bichrome painting (two color). Approximate date: 8th to 3rd century B.C.
For import restrictions in force from 2001, see History of Import Restrictions below.
Example shown: Red-figure nestoris di produzione italiota; From Apulia; Fourth century B.C.; Metaponto, National Archaeological Museum