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Pitcher (oinochoe) in the Wild Goat style, with bands of flowers, animals, and birds
Greek, East Greek
Late Orientalizing to early Archaic Period
620–580 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Ionia, Miletos
Medium/Technique
Ceramic
Dimensions
Height: 31 cm (12 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. S. T. Morse
Accession Number03.90
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 290.
DescriptionMilesian Wild Goat Style oinochoe with trefoil mouth. From bottom to neck three bands: (1) lotus flowers and buds; (2) dog pursuing six goats; (3) palmettes, griffins, geese and goats. Creamy slip. Handle repaired.
Body flares from base; well-defined shoulder, trefoil mouth.
Wild Goat Style is an "Orientalizing" (using motifs originating in the Near East) animal frieze style of East Greece. The style particularly involves repetitive animal friezes, especially featuring wild goats; dense use of filler motifs, especially floral motifs (often rosettes); subsidiary patterned friezes (guilloche, lotus or bud friezes); and large floral centerpieces (spirals, lotus, palmettes). This oinochoe is Milesian. Miletos was a major producer and exporter of fine, painted pottery like this; other subregions of East Greece also produced Wild Goat Style vases.
Body flares from base; well-defined shoulder, trefoil mouth.
Wild Goat Style is an "Orientalizing" (using motifs originating in the Near East) animal frieze style of East Greece. The style particularly involves repetitive animal friezes, especially featuring wild goats; dense use of filler motifs, especially floral motifs (often rosettes); subsidiary patterned friezes (guilloche, lotus or bud friezes); and large floral centerpieces (spirals, lotus, palmettes). This oinochoe is Milesian. Miletos was a major producer and exporter of fine, painted pottery like this; other subregions of East Greece also produced Wild Goat Style vases.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: with E. Simeon of London who said it was found in his own excavations in the island of Rhodes; by date unknown: purchased by Mrs. Samuel Torrey Morse from E. Simeon; gift of Mrs. Samuel Torrey Morse to MFA, January 1903