Object Number | 58-20-3 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Corinthian |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Manufacture Location | Corinth |
Creator | Boread Painter |
Period | Late Corinthian Period |
Date Made | 570-565 BCE |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Ceramic |
Iconography | Boread |
Description | The bottom is flat enough to serve as a secure stand-surface. Small omphalos in a depression at center. Small close-set tongues based on narrow line encircling broad band at aperture on disk. Handle glazed. Tongues on neck. Decoration on front of body: Boread, bearded with forelocks, careful incision, plentiful added purple on face, garments, feathers of wings. At back under handle a large standing bird right, head turned back. Thick filling ornament in field, incised rosettes. |
Height | 22.8 cm |
Outside Diameter | 10.9 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Volunteers of America, 1958 |
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