Asset number
703881001
Description
Pottery: red-figured podanipter (foot-bath). Designs red on black ground, with accessories of white and yellow. Round the edge, egg-moulding; below the designs outside, maeander. Columnar handles, with palmettes on the tops; below, palmettes and rosettes. Round the interior design, vine-wreath in white and yellow. Interior: Eros hovering to left, with curly hair, beaded fillet, earrings, double necklace, bracelets and anklets; in right hand a wreath and three taeniae, in left a phiale. Below, two large plants; ground-lines indicated. Exterior: (a) Youth seated on raised ground to right, looking to left, with wreath, chlamys under him, and phiale with flowers in left hand; by his side a laurel-branch. Behind him is a female figure to right, with left foot on raised ground, hair tied in a bunch, beaded fillet, earrings, double necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton, and white shoes; she holds out a wreath in r. hand and a ball in left to the youth. Before him is a female figure moving away and looking back, with hair tied in a bunch, open cap beaded in front, earrings, double necklace, bracelets, long chiton, himation, and white shoes; in right hand a wreath of flowers, in left a pyxis ornamented with a cross patee, on which are four balls. On the right is a plant; above, three rosettes; ground-lines indicated. (b) In the centre is Eros to left, with right foot raised on a rock, necklace, bracelets, anklet on left leg, and wings spread, holding a magic wheel by a double string in right hand, in left a phiale. Before him is a female figure seated on raised ground to right, with hair tied in a bunch, beaded fillet, earrings, double necklace, bracelets, long girt sleeved chiton, himation over lower limbs, and white shoes; in right hand a wreath, in left a dish ornamented with chevrons, contain fruit and two myrtle-sprigs. On the right is a female figure seated to left, with hair tied in a bunch, open cap, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt sleeved chiton, himation over lower limbs, and white shoes; in right hand a phiale, in left bunches of grapes, one white. Above, a mirror and rosette; behind the other female figure, a rosette. The ground-lines are indicated.
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