rhyton
- Museum number
- 1873,0820.274
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured rhyton in the form of an eagle's head.
The one-handled cup, which has a band of tongue pattern round the lip, and a band of black glaze, terminates in the head of an eagle; the beak is black glaze, the head covered with black lines, imitating feathers, on a red ground. The space around the eye is left in the natural colour of the clay, with thin white lines radiating from the centre; the eye itself is modelled and painted, the pupil and outlines black, the rest white. From the end of the beak upwards a series of brush-marks are drawn in white on the black glaze, as if to indicate the stains of food.
- Production date
- 500BC-470BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 12.70 centimetres
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Height: 24.13 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Buitron-Oliver, D., Douris, A Master-Painter of Athenian Red-Figure Vases (Mainz, 1995), pl.115, no. 248.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2018-2019, 7 Sep-6 Jan, Harvard Art Museums, Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes and Kings
- Acquisition date
- 1873
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1873,0820.274
