Oinochoe
50-1-107
From: Italy | South Italy
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 50-1-107 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Gnathian | South Italian |
| Provenience | Italy | South Italy |
| Manufacture Location | Gnathia |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Intact. Ring foot and inverted ovoid body tapering upward to a thin neck below a spreading trefoil mouth. Rolled vertical handle, shoulder to back of mouth, ending above in a lion's head, apinted white, which projects over the mouth form behind. The lower body and a band below the handle attachment vertically grooved; in the flat zone between, a band of diagonal lines in yellow paint. Around the neck below the mouth a wreath of leaves in yellow paint; pendent from it ribbons or fillets in purple, with fringed white ends. At front, two doves billing. Buff clay with reddened surface; dull black glaze. |
| Height | 25.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 12.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. R. Hare Davis, 1950 |
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