Apulian Knob-Handled Patera
Tondo: head of a woman in profile to left. She wears a hair-covering (kekryphalos) patterned with white lines and rows of white dots; the bunch of hair emerging at the back is tied with a narrow white ribbon. On the hair above the forehead is an oak-leaf stephane in white. She wears a pendant earring and a single-strand necklace. To left is a white fillet, and to right, a laurel branch with white berries.
Exterior: A, Eros, seated to left on a hollow rock, holding a box (cista) in his right hand. He wears a double-strand necklace, two bracelets on each arm, a bracelet on his left ankle, and shoes. In the field, to left, a fillet.
Exterior: B, woman seated to right on a rock-pile. She looks to left, and holds a mirror in her right hand, a cista in her left. She wears a sleeveless chiton, a kekryphalos, a ribbon around her hair, two bracelets on each arm, and shoes. In the field are a plant and fillet.
Reconstructed from fragments. Knob of right handle missing. Some cracks around join of foot and body; some chips on lower edge of foot. Cracked paint in the field of central medallion. Grayish tan incrustation on part of rim and handles.
Shallow bowl with flat rim with raised outer edge. Upright handles, segmental in section, each with mushroom-shaped knob at top center and at either side on rim; short stem with flaring foot. Top of rim: reserved. Handles: black with painted rosettes on knobs. Around tondo: reserved circle; between circle and rim: band of vine leaves in added white, with dotted tendrils. Side of rim: black vertical strokes on reserved background; under edge: reserved with occasional splotches of black glaze intruding. Exterior, between the figured scenes: palmette-fan flanked by scrolls and palmette leaves. Around foot: black wave pattern between two reserved lines. Foot: edge, reserved; underside, mostly reserved, having some red wash toward the outer edge, and marked by a dipinto (two deltas).
After Jentoft-Nilsen, M. R. and Trendall, A.D., CVA Malibu 3 (1990).
Exterior: A, Eros, seated to left on a hollow rock, holding a box (cista) in his right hand. He wears a double-strand necklace, two bracelets on each arm, a bracelet on his left ankle, and shoes. In the field, to left, a fillet.
Exterior: B, woman seated to right on a rock-pile. She looks to left, and holds a mirror in her right hand, a cista in her left. She wears a sleeveless chiton, a kekryphalos, a ribbon around her hair, two bracelets on each arm, and shoes. In the field are a plant and fillet.
Reconstructed from fragments. Knob of right handle missing. Some cracks around join of foot and body; some chips on lower edge of foot. Cracked paint in the field of central medallion. Grayish tan incrustation on part of rim and handles.
Shallow bowl with flat rim with raised outer edge. Upright handles, segmental in section, each with mushroom-shaped knob at top center and at either side on rim; short stem with flaring foot. Top of rim: reserved. Handles: black with painted rosettes on knobs. Around tondo: reserved circle; between circle and rim: band of vine leaves in added white, with dotted tendrils. Side of rim: black vertical strokes on reserved background; under edge: reserved with occasional splotches of black glaze intruding. Exterior, between the figured scenes: palmette-fan flanked by scrolls and palmette leaves. Around foot: black wave pattern between two reserved lines. Foot: edge, reserved; underside, mostly reserved, having some red wash toward the outer edge, and marked by a dipinto (two deltas).
After Jentoft-Nilsen, M. R. and Trendall, A.D., CVA Malibu 3 (1990).
Images courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0)