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Imitation White-Ground Alabastron

Date

20th century

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Modern

Department

Vessels

Institution

Getty Museum

A complete white ground alabastron with minor chips in the paint. Side A depicts a girl and youth facing left. She wears a sakkos; he wears a fillet. Both wear bordered garments. Her right arm is extended out and down with finger pointing toward the ground; he raises his right arm up, palm to the sky and grasps a walking stick with his left. Side B is a youth facing right wearing a himation and looking downward, left hand on his hip, right raised up. He also wears a fillet and supports a walking stick behind him. Both male figures wear diaphanous clothing. In the field, hanging on the wall, is an alabastron. Added red is used for the fillet on the youth and ribbon, necklace, and dot on the sakkos for the female. The bottom of the vessel is reserved with a large central flower. The figural scene is between bands with ovolo patterns. A reserved band around the top of the rim carries the inscription: PAIS KALOS.

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