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Pelike
Italic, Latin, Faliscan
Classical Period
375–350 B.C.
Medium/Technique
Ceramic
Dimensions
10 cm (3 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number13.86
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Vase-Painting in Italy (MFA), no. 160.
DescriptionOn each side a draped figure standing to left. Linear decorations above and below, with scrolls on each side of the handles. Intact.
Very small.
ITALIAN VASE PAINTING in ITALY, #160 (13.86)
Pelike
Probably Faliscan
Attributed to the Sokra Group (Pianu)
375-350 B.C.
The decoration is in added red, and details of the figure are rendered with incision.
On either side is a draped woman standing to the left, her hair pulled back and tied. On each side, the upper frame is aband of crude, linear tongues set within a rectangular panel. The circling groundline consist of two red stripes. Scrolling tendrils flank each handle.
Beazley associated this pelike with the Phantom Group, but, as mentioned in the entry for cat. no. 159, Pianu restricts the group to the unincised oinochoai of
shape 7.
Compare Pianu, Sovradipinte, pl. 16, no. 21.
Very small.
ITALIAN VASE PAINTING in ITALY, #160 (13.86)
Pelike
Probably Faliscan
Attributed to the Sokra Group (Pianu)
375-350 B.C.
The decoration is in added red, and details of the figure are rendered with incision.
On either side is a draped woman standing to the left, her hair pulled back and tied. On each side, the upper frame is aband of crude, linear tongues set within a rectangular panel. The circling groundline consist of two red stripes. Scrolling tendrils flank each handle.
Beazley associated this pelike with the Phantom Group, but, as mentioned in the entry for cat. no. 159, Pianu restricts the group to the unincised oinochoai of
shape 7.
Compare Pianu, Sovradipinte, pl. 16, no. 21.
ProvenanceFrom Chiusi (according to Vase-Painting in Italy, p. 239); 1877: loaned to MFA by William Sturgis Bigelow; gift of William Sturgis Bigelow to MFA, January 2, 1913