Pelike
MS4817
From: Italy | Apulia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4817 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Apulian | South Italian |
| Provenience | Italy | Apulia |
| Date Made | 4th century BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Red Figure |
| Iconography | Youth | Mirror | Grapes | Stela | Woman |
| Description | A. Nude youth dancing towards right, left leg forward holding out in front of him a mirror, in right hand, and a bunch of grapes in his left hand. B. At right a stele. Fully dressed woman advancing towards stele, looking back, a mirror in her left hand and a bunch of grapes in her right hand. Upside down wave patterns above both sides. A large palmette under each handle. Intact. Oyster white clay. |
| Height | 16.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 11.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Wilder M. Perry, Exec. of the Estate of Frances Stearns, 1912 |
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