Apulian Red-Figure Oinochoe
The vessel has a high ridged handle, sharply angled at the top, with plastic animal heads on each side at the join to the mouth, which has a beaked spout. The body is bulbous, with a slender neck, and a short stem with the foot in two degrees.
Body: nude Eros standing on a ground line of white dots. On his head is a head-band (sphendone) and a stephane. He wears an earring, a double-strand necklace, a beaded bandolier across his body, a triple-coil bracelet on each arm, a five-coil bracelet on his left leg, and shoes. His wings have details in added yellowish white, white, white with pink, and black. With his right hand he puts incense on a thymiaterion. In his left hand he holds a phiale. The thymiaterion stands on three curved legs; its top is rendered with yellow and white cross-hatching, and the lower portion is decorated with white dots. A rosette is in the far left and right fields. A small flower springs up between the thymiaterion and Eros, and behind him there is a larger plant with seven leaves and six berries.
Neck: egg pattern between two reserved bands. Back, below handle: large palmette-fan with detached sidescrolls, with dots in added white for detail on leaves. Reserved stripe encircling lower body. Stem: reserved with reddish pink band at join to body; top surface and underside of foot: reserved.
After Jentoft-Nilsen, M. R. and Trendall, A.D., CVA Malibu 3 (1990).
Body: nude Eros standing on a ground line of white dots. On his head is a head-band (sphendone) and a stephane. He wears an earring, a double-strand necklace, a beaded bandolier across his body, a triple-coil bracelet on each arm, a five-coil bracelet on his left leg, and shoes. His wings have details in added yellowish white, white, white with pink, and black. With his right hand he puts incense on a thymiaterion. In his left hand he holds a phiale. The thymiaterion stands on three curved legs; its top is rendered with yellow and white cross-hatching, and the lower portion is decorated with white dots. A rosette is in the far left and right fields. A small flower springs up between the thymiaterion and Eros, and behind him there is a larger plant with seven leaves and six berries.
Neck: egg pattern between two reserved bands. Back, below handle: large palmette-fan with detached sidescrolls, with dots in added white for detail on leaves. Reserved stripe encircling lower body. Stem: reserved with reddish pink band at join to body; top surface and underside of foot: reserved.
After Jentoft-Nilsen, M. R. and Trendall, A.D., CVA Malibu 3 (1990).
Images courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0)