- Museum number
- 1856,1226.185
- Description
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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, wave-pattern; between them, palmettes and rosettes. Vertical handles with knobs each side, on which are white stars. Round the interior designs, a white myrtle-wreath; inner border of egg-moulding; in the centre, white rays.
Interior: Frieze with two designs separated by a palmette and tendrils each side:
(1) Youth seated to left on raised ground, with radiated fillet, and drapery round thighs; in right hand a phiale with fruit, in left a myrtle-bough. Before him is a female figure with hair gathered in a radiated opisthosphendone, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long chiton and apoptygma, and shoes; in right hand an embroidered taenia, in left a cista ornamented with wavy lines, on the top of which are four flowers. The latter figure is partly restored; between them is a basket containing fruit. On the right is a female figure to left, as the other (bordered himation, no apoptygma), with a ball in right hand; before her is a white swan, looking up, with wings addorsed; behind, a plant.
(2) Female figure seated to left on raised ground, with hair gathered in a radiated opisthosphendone, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long chiton, himation, and shoes, in right hand a pyxis; on the rock and before the figure are plants. Facing her is a female figure with left foot raised on a rock, arms extended, opisthosphendone, and long girt chiton, playing at ball; three white balls are in the air above her. Behind the first figure is a youth to left, with radiated fillet and chlamys on left arm, in right hand a myrtle-bough; behind him, a plant.
Exterior: (a) Revel: Female figure moving to left, looking back, with radiated opisthosphendone, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton, and shoes, in left hand a phiale containing fruit. Next, a youth moving to left, looking back, with radiated fillet, chlamys over arms, thyrsos ending in a pine-cone in right hand, and a blazing torch in left. Next, a female figure moving to left, as the other, with similar thyrsos in right hand and tympanon in left; behind her, a taenia.
(b) Youth seated on raised ground to left, with drapery under him, radiated fillet, in right hand a myrtle-branch. He looks back at an approach female figure (attired as those on a), with wreath in right hand and cista in left ornamented with wavy lines, on the top of which is fruit; behind her is a rosette. On the left is a similar female figure to right, with left foot raised on a rock, in left hand a fan; behind her, a taenia.
- Production date
- 370BC-350BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 43.18 centimetres
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Height: 15.24 centimetres
- Location
- On display (G73/dc73)
- Acquisition date
- 1856
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1856,1226.185
