Oinochoe

50-1-107

From: Italy | South Italy

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number 50-1-107
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Gnathian | South Italian
Provenience Italy | South Italy
Manufacture Location Gnathia
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Intact. Ring foot and inverted ovoid body tapering upward to a thin neck below a spreading trefoil mouth. Rolled vertical handle, shoulder to back of mouth, ending above in a lion's head, apinted white, which projects over the mouth form behind. The lower body and a band below the handle attachment vertically grooved; in the flat zone between, a band of diagonal lines in yellow paint. Around the neck below the mouth a wreath of leaves in yellow paint; pendent from it ribbons or fillets in purple, with fringed white ends. At front, two doves billing. Buff clay with reddened surface; dull black glaze.

Height 25.5 cm
Outside Diameter 12.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. R. Hare Davis, 1950

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