Head Vase
MS5409
Location: On Display in the Greece Gallery
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS5409 |
| Current Location | Greece Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Attic | Greek |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Archaic Greek Period |
| Date Made | 500-450 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Red Figure |
| Iconography | Female Head | Ivy |
| Description | Plastic head of young woman. Hair fully glazed except for a fringe around forehead and temples consisting of a quadruple row of tiny beading. An ivy garland in applied white in hair. Vessel neck and trefoil lip rising from top of head. Handle rises from back of head, arching over and down to lip. Intact. Flat bottom. |
| Height | 22.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. Dillwyn Parrish, 1914 |
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