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Apulian Volute Krater

Date

about 330 B.C.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek (South Italian, Apulian)

Department

Vessels

Institution

Getty Museum

A: within a naiskos, woman seated to left, with her head turned to right, looking into a mirror, and holding an open box in her right hand. Outside the naiskos on the left stands a woman, wearing a sleeveless chiton with a short cloak draped across the front of her body, who holds a white fillet in her right hand and a long-handled patera in her left. On the right is a standing woman, dressed in a sleeveless chiton, with a phiale in her left hand, an oinochoe (restored) in her right. In the upper corners of the field are balls, one quartered in white, the other in black. In each lower corner is a phiale outlined in white and decorated with a row of white dots, and beside the naiskos to left stands a white alabastron. B: two women approaching a stele. The stele is reserved and decorated in white at the top with one broad band, a narrow band, a zigzag, and two narrow bands. A black fillet, through which a white one is looped, is tied around the shaft. The base has two narrow bands and a flat-S pattern in white. The woman at left holds in her right hand a fillet (incorrectly restored) and in her upraised left hand, a mirror. The woman on the right grasps a long-handled patera with her right hand and holds a bunch of grapes in her left. In each upper corner is a fillet; in each lower one, a rosette. In the field between the stele and the woman on the right is a fillet. A rosette has been restored in the corresponding space on the left. The krater has a broad mouth, with an overhanging lip in two degrees; fillet at join of mouth to neck; concave neck, with upper part slightly offset; sloping shoulder; ovoid body. High volute handles, flanged in section, above vertical loop handles; on the volutes, plastic masks; plastic swan heads at join to shoulder. Pedestal foot with edge in two degrees and with narrow indented band at join to body. A, side of lip: egg pattern; under lip: wave; white bead and reel on black. Neck: reserved meander pattern outlined in added white. Shoulder: red-figured female head in three-quarter view to left, wearing radiate stephane, rising from campanula, in floral setting with scrolls, flowers, and buds; tongues between black lines; egg pattern between reserved bands. B, side of lip: egg pattern; under lip: wave; black band. Neck: berried laurel between narrow reserved bands; large central palmette with side scrolls and palmettes. Shoulder: tongues between black lines; egg pattern. Around vase, beneath scenes: meanders in groups of three interrupted by saltire squares. Below each handle: two large superposed palmettes with side scrolls. Handle-medallions: A, diademed female (Gorgon?) heads in white with dilute glaze for hair and facial details. B, diademed female heads with added red for the face and black for hair and facial details. After Jentoft-Nilsen, M. R. and Trendall, A.D., CVA Malibu 3 (1990).

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