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Dogs among fruit trees
Scenes of rural life do not figure prominently in the iconography of Attic vases. This exception is engaging in its simplicity. Executed at a time when the red-figure technique had loosened the manner of drawing, the dogs were painted in added white directly onto the reserved clay surface.
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Title: Terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup)
Period: Archaic
Date: ca. 500 BCE
Culture: Greek, Attic
Medium: Terracotta; black-figure
Dimensions: H. 4 in. (10.2 cm); diameter 5 7/16 in. (13.8 cm); width with handles 7 15/16 in. (20.1 cm)
Classification: Vases
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1941
Accession Number: 41.162.23
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