Olpe
MS4801
From: Greece | Attica (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | MS4801 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | South Italian | Apulian |
Provenience | Greece | Attica (uncertain) |
Date Made | 4th century BCE |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Ceramic |
Technique | Red Figure |
Iconography | Basket | Pole | Disc |
Description | Thin vertical white pole with disc (?) on top. Intact. Figured scene on front bordered below by maeander patern, above by long tongue pattern above a narrow zone of egg pattern. In scene two women facing one another. At right is a seated woman with a wreath in her left hand and a basket in her right. At left is a woman standing with her left foot on a rock holding a bunch of grapes in her left hand and holding out in her right hand a small ladder like object (painted in white: much of white has disappeared). Decoration and glaze had been restored. |
Height | 23 cm |
Outside Diameter | 14.6 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Wilder M. Perry, Exec. of the Estate of Frances Stearns, 1912 |
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