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Description: | Two handles, high foot, red figured vessel. Large fragment of rim has broken from body and was glued back during conservation treatment. Face mouldings on both handles just above the interior vessel rim. Interior and handles black, rim edge a double line with bars beneath, under rim a single black line over an area of red ground. Pedestal base; black with a red collar half way up & red stepped base & edging, reserved base interior. Side A: Woman seated right on a pile of cushions, with hair up behind, facing left; bracelets, necklace, wearing a chiton draped to reveal her right breast, in her right hand a handled situla (bucket), in her left, a box & below a circular decoration, featuring a double cross with a dot in each quarter, a mantle or scarf is draped left in field. Side B: Eros seated on cushions/seat, wearing chest straps, bracelets & necklace, in his right hand he holds a box aloft, with a circular decoration hanging below. At the bottom of the base is a label that reads, " Art Borough of Nottingham Musem. Reg. No. 1888-196". '£75' is also written on the label in pencil.
Accession number: NCM 1888-196 | Subjects: | food and drink GREEK objects of indeterminate use (containers) ceramics | Temporal: | 400BC-200BC? | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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