Fig. 676. Plate of Urbino Ware, Louvre Museum.
Urbino Ware, made at Urbino, under the patronage of its Duke. “A city,” says Jacquemart, “which has supplied potters and painters to the greater part of the workshops of Italy; which has sent ceramic colonies to Flanders and Corfu, and yet we are scarcely acquainted with its works, except those of its decline.” (Fig. [676].) (See Majolica.)
Urceolated (Basket), Arch. The corbel of the capital which narrows a little underneath its upper part.
Urceolus. Diminutive of Urceus (q.v.).
Urceus, R. An earthenware pitcher used in religious ceremonies; represented on coins in the form of a modern ewer.
Uriant, Her. Said of a fish when it swims in a vertical position; head downwards. (Cf. Hauriant.)
Fig. 677. Funereal urn, Indian.
Urn. The common urn, the κάλπις of the Greeks, had a narrow neck and swelling body; it was used for conveying water from the fountain. The funereal cinerary urn was in general quadrangular, but there were a large number which resembled the kalpis, with the exception that they had a wider neck and were furnished in every case with a lid. Fig. [677] represents a funeral urn of Indian pottery, of very ancient date. The electoral urn, from which lots were drawn at the comitia to decide the order of voting, was of an oval form and had a narrow neck to prevent the possibility of more than one number being drawn out at a time. An urn is always introduced as an appropriate emblem of the river-gods. The urna was a measure of capacity containing eight congii or half an Amphora.
Urnarium, R. A square table or hollow slab on which urnæ or earthenware vessels were placed.