amphora
- Museum number
- 1867,0506.46
- Description
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Fikellura ware pottery amphora. Neck, eyes and nose with small flower above. Shoulder, chain of buds. Belly, between handle volutes - A, big lotus flower with palmette filling and above it dog catching hare; B, small flowers springing one from each volute, dot-rosette above, rosette of four segments and a bird beneath. The outer reeds of the handles are painted over, the inner is reserved.
- Production date
- 540BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 40.70 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- CVA British Museum 8
The dog appears to have reservation on the neck much as in the Würzburg group. For the eyes on the neck compare Amsterdam 1238 (CVA Hague i, pl. 7. 4: BSA xxxiv, 21-L 6).
[A. 1310.] Boehlau no. 4, figs. 22-24 (excellent drawings: the bird's beak should, however, be open). G. Perrot and E. Chipiez, Histoire de l’Art ix, figs. 218 and 228 (= Boehlau figs. 22 and 24). E. Pfuhl, Malerei und Zeichnung iii, fig. 131 (= Boehlau fig. 22). BSA xxxiv, 22 (L 16), 23-24, 77; fig. 14 (detail of lotus flower).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1867,0506.46
