Apulian Red-Figure Oinochoe

Body: half-draped Nike, with white wings and dotted pinions, seated to left on an Ionic capital. Her upper torso is bare, with an almost frontal left breast but only a projecting nipple for the right. She wears an un-decorated hair covering (kekryphalos), a stephane of four beads, a crescent-shaped earring with two pendants, a double-strand necklace, and shoes. In her right hand she holds an elaborate fan with a palmette at its center and scroll-like terminals on the handle; behind this hand is a white mirror. In the field beside her legs are a rosette and a fillet, and behind her, a rosette and phiale mesomphalos.

The oinochoe has a high handle, and a double ridge trefoil mouth with a molded lip impressed with egg pattern. The foot is in two degrees. On the edge of the lip: an incised egg pattern over which white, much of it now flaked, was added. On the neck: egg pattern in black between narrow black and reserved bands; below, alternating white and black tongues. On the shoulder: between two reserved bands, eleven rosettes and dot-clusters. Below the picture, a reverse wave. On the body, below the handle: palmette-scroll pattern with dots and bars of added white for details A reserved band encircles the foot at its join to the body and the edge of the foot.

After Jentoft-Nilsen, M. R. and Trendall, A.D., CVA Malibu 3 (1990).