vase stand, holmos

Vase-stand (holmos) with plastic and cut-out decoration. Reddish brown clay and partly polished surface. Turned-out foot, lower body ovoid, three round bulges above and a conical support for a basin. Slightly everted rim.
On lower body four cut-out rosettes with seven, eight, and nine rounded petals. In the center of the rosettes a projecting flat knob. Between the rosettes are cut-out vertical strips with rounded upper ends and heart-shaped lower ends. Four plastic projections between bulges and the last bulge and the basin support. Three finger-made wawing grooves on the base and on each bulge. On the support two groups of grooves.

According to the parallel from the Louvre the decoration which mixes plastic elements with cut-outs, grooves and geometric figures is typicaly for the workshops in Cerveteri.
Etruskermontern!
Ernst Brunner.