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When we first visited our friend Steve in Rome in 1999 he had in his possesion a number of amazing rustic potter y ewers . Steve called them bucchero ... appar e ntly they are mod eled on ancient Etruscan pottery .
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The glazing wasn't exactly like that on the ewers my friend Steve had in R ome, but they were close enough. I was in heaven, and I en ded up b uyin g two medium -sized ewers an d a number of smaller items to take home to Canada.
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