Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Meet Abby, one of our objects conservators, who's been using 3D-scanning tech and handcrafting replacement rings to restore this bucchero vessel before it goes on view.
Bucchero was the Etruscans' signature pottery style — that deep black color comes from firing the clay without oxygen, transforming its natural reddish-brown color into something entirely new.
See this piece (and the artistry that brought it back) in "The Etruscans: From the Heart of Ancient Italy," on view through September 20.
Meet Abby, one of our objects conservators, who's been using 3D-scanning tech and handcrafting replacement rings to restore this bucchero vessel before it goes on view.
Bucchero was the Etruscans' signature pottery style — that deep black color comes from firing the clay without oxygen, transforming its natural reddish-brown color into something entirely new.
See this piece (and the artistry that brought it back) in "The Etruscans: From the Heart of Ancient Italy," on view through September 20.
