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Description: | Condition - excellent. Red figures, details of decoration picked out in white, trefoil rim, one handle. Decoration : front : female bust facing left, reverse: floral pattern, around the neck vertical white lines. "JB/N13" (?) is written on the base in black ink., Oinochoe, a one handled jug. This example has a black body, a semi-trefoil lip with integral handle. There is an incised line on the rim of the trefoil, with a fingerprint visible below. The neck is over-painted in light tan in a band with tongues desceding from it to join the off set shoulder. A second fingerprint is visible on the on the neck.At the shoulder a red wave pattern facing left circles the edge of the neck. Below, on the main body, is the face of a woman facing left. She wears a stephane (diadem), an elabourate sakkos (hat) divided with lines of crosses, dots and rays in black and yellow. Also drop earings with beaded attachments and a beaded necklace, all in yellow. Near her lips is a black beauty spot. The yellow shape close to her nose, suggests she is sniffing a flower. She is boarded on either side by framing florals, with between them, at the rear, a palmette. Below a double black band with a wave pattern beneath facing right. A further black band decorates the centre of the pedestal which descends to a horizontal ribbed foot painted black. The base is unpainted and cone-shaped with a slight central dome. Some indistinct lettering and numbering is visible in faded black ink on the base.,
Accession number: NCM 1921-29 | Subjects: | GREEK food and drink? objects of indeterminate use (containers) ceramics APULIAN | Temporal: | 399BC-200BC | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Creator: | ITALY? | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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