File:Xanten. Drag. 30. Curle 1917, p. 147, fig. 15.jpg

English: Sigillata Drag. 30 found in Xanten, Germany. Passed to the Berlin Antiquarium. In James Curle, 1917, p. 147, fig.15. Curle says this about it:
« bowl of cylindrical form (Dragendorff, 30), was found at Xanten, and is now in the Berlin Antiquarium. In its decoration it recalls fig. 13. We have the same conventional wreath framing medallions, each containing a figure of Mercury. In these we note the beginnings of figure subjects on the South Gaulish bowls; and, again, we have the intervening spaces filled with winding stems and leaves and figures of birds. It is a style which was apparently introduced by the potters working under Caligula and Claudius; and we find it on the bowls of Masclus, who belongs to that period, and whose products are very widely spread. A very similar arrangement of wreath and leaves, accompanied by figures of small birds and animals, occurs on one of his bowls found in Vienna, and on a fragment of a bowl, probably from the same mould, found in London, now in the British Museum. Examples of the work of this potter have been met with on the Rhine and the Danube, in Provence, in Spain, and throughout France. Probably his wares came to England among the finer dishes which began to be imported after the Claudian Conquest under Aulus Plautius in A.D. 43. The type of decoration to be seen upon the bowls of Masclus, and which he probably originated, appears to have had many imitators, and we can trace its vogue over a long period. » (Curle 1917, p. 149-147)