Ewer

This ewer comes from Locarno (Switzerland).
Its ovoidal body is embellished with decorations in relief on the handle, which has a head of Medusa welded to its base.
The other decorations on the handle, starting from the bottom, represent a goat in profile, and an elderly bearded man holding a knife, with one foot resting on a dead animal. These figures, unrelated to each other and without any narrative function, are drawn from the idyllic-sacred repertory of images.
Though it was an object in common use, the ewer is distinguished by the tactile rendering of the figures and the expressiveness of the face of the Medusa, Hellenistic in derivation.