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Terracotta pitcher with lid

ca. 730 BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 151
The large pitcher (jug) belongs to a group of eight terracotta vases (10.210.1-.8) that are said to be from Athens. Despite the absence of archaeological record, they were probably found together in a tomb. Such groups are well attested in excavated burials. Moreover, the iconography of the two neck-amphorae, particularly the one with the mourning women on the neck, is appropriate for a funerary purpose. The group displays stylistic changes that occurred from about 730-700 BCE, a time of artistic innovation that resulted in the end of the formal precision of the Geometric style and the rise of the exuberant Protoattic style.


The pitcher is one of the earliest pieces of the group, as indicated by its strictly geometric painted decoration. Characterized by a globular belly, a gracefully curved high neck and a single vertical handle, monumental pitchers were a new shape of the Late Geometric style in Athens. It was the main shape produced by the so-called Workshop of Athens 706, to which this piece is attributed.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Terracotta pitcher with lid
  • Period: Late Geometric II
  • Date: ca. 730 BCE
  • Culture: Greek, Attic
  • Medium: Terracotta
  • Dimensions: H.: 14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm)
    Other (H. with lid): 17 1/8 in. (43.5 cm)
  • Classification: Vases
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1910
  • Object Number: 10.210.6a, b
  • Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art

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