skyphos
- Museum number
- 1867,0508.1175
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured skyphos.
Designs red on black ground; palmette-patterns between.
(a) Ephebos to right, with bordered drapery behind him, sandals, and staff, in left hand a strigil; a small bird is perched to left on his right hand, at which a cat on his back looks over his right shoulder. Facing him is a female figure with hair in a knot, open cap, necklace, bracelets, long chiton and himation, both bordered, and sandals; her right hand is extended, her left holds up her drapery. Between them is a ball on which are patterns.
(b) Eros to right, with hair gathered under a fillet, anklet on left leg, and wings spread, holding an open cista in left hand; at his feet is a duck to left, looking up. Facing him is a female figure with embroidered cap, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long bordered chiton with apoptygma or upper fold down to her hips, holding in right hand a mirror, in left an egg.
- Production date
- 400BC-380BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 15.50 centimetres
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Weight: 472 grammes
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Width: 27.30 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
El. Cer. iv. pl. 82.
Trendall:
Note the use of leaves with serrated edges on the side-scrolls of the fan-palmettes below the handles and of rows of fine dots across the drapery of the women; also the saccos worn by the woman on side A, which later provides a model for those of the Dolon Painter.
- Location
- On display (G73/dc13)
- Condition
- One handle broken.
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1867,0508.1175
