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Handle from loutrophoros
Greek, South Italian
Late Classical to Early Hellenistic Period
about 330–310 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Italy, Apulia
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
27.9 cm (11 in.)
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number01.8094
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CollectionsEurope, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Vase-Painting in Italy (MFA), no. 070.
DescriptionHandle in form of a scroll, decorated on flat side with a laurel branch in red figure style and a rosette in white and yellow.
The flat, outer side is decorated with a laurel branch in red-figure with yellow berries. On the terminal curve at each end is a rosette in white and yellow. A white wave-pattern runs down the narrow edge on one side, terminating in a white stripe on the coils at either end.
VASE PAINTING in ITALY, # 70 - (01.8094)
Handle of Loutrophoros
about 330-310 B.C.
The flat, outer side is decorated with a laurel branch in red-figure with yellow berries. On the terminal curve at each end is a rosette in white and yellow. A white wave-pattern runs down the narrow edge on one side, terminating in a white stripe on the coils at either end.
The flat, outer side is decorated with a laurel branch in red-figure with yellow berries. On the terminal curve at each end is a rosette in white and yellow. A white wave-pattern runs down the narrow edge on one side, terminating in a white stripe on the coils at either end.
VASE PAINTING in ITALY, # 70 - (01.8094)
Handle of Loutrophoros
about 330-310 B.C.
The flat, outer side is decorated with a laurel branch in red-figure with yellow berries. On the terminal curve at each end is a rosette in white and yellow. A white wave-pattern runs down the narrow edge on one side, terminating in a white stripe on the coils at either end.
ProvenanceBy 1901: with E. P. Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in Naples.); purchased by MFA from E. P. Warren, December 1901