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Description: | Apulian red-figure skyphos with deep open bowl tapering toward the flaring foot, one horizontal handle attached just below the rim (the other is mostly missing). It is glazed black on the outside, and around the base. The outside is decorated with egg-and-dot pattern below the rim and wave frieze above the foot. On one side the figural design depicts a seated male figure (Eros), nude and winged with a cloth draped around his back. He has hair drawn up into bun, pearl earrings, necklace, bracelets and holds a mirror in one hand. The figure is flanked on either side by a large palmette. On the other side of the vase there is a figure of a squatting female decorated with a long necklace around the body. Accessories white overpainted. Connected in style with the mattinata Painter | Subjects: | Europe Campania Italy Southern Europe | Source: | Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.foreignarchaeology.80413 | Go to resource |
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