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Description: | Ornate apulian red-figure clay loutrophoros vase. Black glaze with red/brown and white and orange painted decoration. It has a circular pedestal type base (pale orange clay colour) leading into a large barrel shaped body widening at either end. It has a tall neck leading into a wide disc shape opening. There are 2 ornate scrolled handles looped on either side, along the length of the neck. Each handles have 2 projections at each ends and a circular decoration. The top circles show the head and neck of a woman in white.
The whle body is covered with intense decoration, apart from the base. The body is split into two scenes (top and bottom) split by friezes of repeated palmette, scrolls, floral, dots, meander pattern, and semi circles and dots repeated.The bottom scene depicts (on one side) a woman seated within a naiskos. The woman is seated on a small column and holds a fan in one hand and rests on the other hand, dressed in a robe. She is flanked on either side by two women seated, holding different objects - a box, mirror shaped object, etc. They are both robed and have white painted details, flanked on either side by large palmettes and scrolls.
The other side is not visible from the cabinet.
The top of the body is decorated with scrolls and palmettes in red on one side. The other side shows the head and neck of a woman in the centre surrounded by circles, whirls scrolls and floral motifs.
The neck has various bands of decoration. Central is a feather shape repeated in rows. Others are friezes of semicircles, dots, circles, lines, leaves, with white and orange painted decoration. The handles have a black and white wave patterns on either side. Rim around top has a repeated geometric white painted pattern.
The lid has a circular bottom, with a rim underneath to fit into the top of the vase. It has a black glaze and has a tall knob in the centre (left the clay colour). On the outside of the lid there is a wave and dot frieze around the edges. The scene depicted include a male, nude youth, seated and winged holding a circular mirror type object in his hand, and a 2 women on either side, clad in robes.. These figures are interspersed between dots, floral crosses, a box, with a bit of white painted decoration. | Subjects: | Greece Europe Southern Europe | Source: | Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.foreignarchaeology.86603 | Go to resource |
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