Pelike
MS399
Location: On Display in the Greece Gallery
From: Greece | Greek Island
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS399 |
| Current Location | Greece Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Attic |
| Provenience | Greece | Greek Island |
| Manufacture Location | Attica |
| Period | Classical Greek Period |
| Date Made | 480 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Red Figure |
| Iconography | Animal | Cheetah | Cat |
| Description | Pelike. Complete. Surface somewhat worn and pitted. Pink clay, somewhat dull black glaze with whitish surface bloom (from salts?). Panels front and back, border with net pattern at sides and tongue pattern above. A) Draped youth right, leaning on a knobby staff up which climbs a small spotted animal, perhaps a cat. B) Nude youth walking right, drapery over shoulder and carrying a hooked staff decorated near the top with a bow. The same spotted animal walks in front of him. |
| Height | 28.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 13.8 cm |
| Credit Line | Museum Purchase, 1896 |
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