vase
- Museum number
- 1875,1110.2
- Description
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Faience vase in the form of a winged Eros riding on a goose.
Eros is seated on the neck of the duck, with legs apart and hands extended, having probably held a bridle; he is of boyish proportions, his wings are spread, and he wears a wreath. Behind his back is the mouth and neck of the vase, and on the left side of the duck's back is a circular handle of three ribs. The duck's head is turned to its left; its legs are only rudimentary supports, and in front of the body is a spout. The feathers are most carefully indicated, on the body in brown on white, on the neck and head white on pale blue ; the wings are crossed over the back.
- Production date
- 300BC-250BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 17.78 centimetres
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Width: 12 centimetres
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Depth: 21 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Roman Pottery
Rayet and Collignon, Ceramique Grecque, pp. 365, 374; Gazette des Beaux-Arts, xxxv. (1887), p. 393; Hazard, De la connaissance par les anciens des glacures plombiferes, p. 22; Winter, Typenkatalog der Terrakotten, ii. p. 313, note E; Walters, Ancient Pottery, i. p. 129. See also Furtwaengler, Coll. Sabouroff, i. text to pl. 70, fig. 3, for a faience kantharos (Berlin Vase-Cat. 2941), found in the same tomb.
- Location
- On display (G22/dc8)
- Exhibition history
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2023 4 May - 13 Aug, London, BM, G35, Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece
- Condition
- Wings of Eros, beak and tail of duck injured.
- Acquisition date
- 1875
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1875,1110.2