Apulian Red-Figure Oinochoe (shape 3)
Waterspout Groupabout 360 B.C.
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
The wine jug has a low flattish handle, a bulbous body with trefoil mouth, and a low ring base. It is decorated with a woman wearing a sleeveless chiton moving to left, holding a mirror in her right hand, and a beaded wreath in her left. She wears a hairband (sphendone), a stephane, an earring, a necklace, and two bracelets on each arm. In the lower left field is a scroll with a diamond floral; in the lower right, a low stele; in the upper field, a phiale; in both upper corners, ivy leaves. The picture is framed by reserved bands; above the top border, a frieze of eggs. The underside of the foot is reserved, with a shell-like pattern in the clay (perhaps from the potter's wheel).
After Jentoft-Nilsen, M. R. and Trendall, A.D., CVA Malibu 3 (1990).
- Title: Apulian Red-Figure Oinochoe (shape 3)
- Creator: Waterspout Group
- Date Created: about 360 B.C.
- Location Created: Apulia, South Italy
- Physical Dimensions: 15.4 × 11.3 cm (6 1/16 × 4 7/16 in.)
- Type: Oinochoe
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Terracotta
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 71.AE.361
- Culture: Greek (South Italian)
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California
- Creator Display Name: Waterspout Group (Greek (Apulian))
- Classification: Vessels (Containers)
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