Terracotta fragments of a trefoil olpe (jug)
One fragment has the part of the head and chest of a lion and three fronds of a palmette; a second fragment has two fronds of a palmette and part of a lion to left?; a third fragment has a thin red glazed line and part of a palmette with black and red fronds; a fourth fragment has a thin glazed line and parts of two unidentified objects; a fifth fragment has a bit of reserve and is also partly black glazed
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta fragments of a trefoil olpe (jug)
- Artist: Attributed to the Manner of the Gorgon Painter [Clark]
- Period: Archaic
- Date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Attic
- Medium: Terracotta; black-figure
- Classification: Vases
- Credit Line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011
- Object Number: 2011.604.3.2737a–e
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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Gorgon Painter
ca. 580 BCE
Gorgon Painter
first quarter of the 5th century BCE
Greek, Attic
mid-4th century BCE
Greek, Attic
late 10th–early 9th century BCE
Greek, South Italian, Campanian
4th century BCE
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