rhyton
- Museum number
- 1873,0820.273
- Description
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Pottery rhyton in the form of a boar's head.
The cup, one handled, on which the design stands is supported by a finely modelled boar's head, in two longitudinal halves. The surface covered with fine black glaze; a series of lightly incised lines mark the fringe of hair all around the cheeks and lower jaw. The front of the snout and the interior of the ears are left in the natural clay, but may have been covered with a brownish pigment used for the mouth and tusks (two on each side of the lower jaw). The eyeball is black within a circle left red; it is set in a white ground, with a raised rim coloured purple for the eyelid. The crest is purple.
The design is divided into three by the ears and handle. Above the crest is a wreath of ivy, the interlacing stalks indicated by lightly incised lines. On each side, between handle and ear, is a boar to left. Below, a band of herring-bone pattern. The one on left moves to left with open mouth, as if grunting, and with right fore-leg raised. The other is browsing. The hair all over the body is indicated by stippling in brown and thinned black.
- Production date
- 460BC-450BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 22.86 centimetres
- Location
- On display (G15/dc4)
- Exhibition history
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2023 4 May - 13 Aug, London, BM, G35, Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece
- Acquisition date
- 1873
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1873,0820.273