Woman with distaff in left hand, spindle and whorl in right
- Title
- Woman with distaff in left hand, spindle and whorl in right
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Jug Vase D13
- Creator
- Brygos Painter
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- attributed to Brygos Painter (Ancient Greek vase painter, active ca. 490-ca. 470 BCE)
- Description
- Pottery: White-ground oinochoe. A woman in a long sleeved, dotted chiton, a bordered himation, and sandals, with earrings, bracelets, and hair wound into a ball on the neck and fastened with a fillet, standing to right, twisting between the thumb and first finger of her right hand a thread from a hank of wool on a distaff which she holds up with her left. On the right, HEΠAIΣ KAΛΕ, ή παΐς καλή. The neck, handle, and foot are glazed black; the surface of the neck is slightly raised above that of the shoulder. The edge of the lip is coloured purple; at the base of the handle is an inverted palmette below a strip of egg pattern, and below the moulding on the shoulder is a band of tongue pattern; all red on black. The body is covered with a white engobe, on which the design is drawn in black outline. Purple is used for fillet, bracelets, sandals, wool, and spindle. Light brown for inner markings and upper folds of chiton and inscription. The hair is drawn in dark brown lines on a wash of light brown. Eye archaic. Below, a thin brown line. --The British Museum Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
- Inscription
- HEΠAIΣ KAΛΕ, ή παΐς καλή.
- View
- Front
- Coverage
- Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation) Locri, Calabria, Italy (discovery)
- Temporal
- ca. 490-470 BCE
- Subject
- Pottery V Red Figure, White, Animal White Ground Plates, etc.
- Style Period
- White-ground Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
- Work Type
- jugs (vessels)
- Date
- -0490/-0470
- View Date
- 1985-09
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_06497
- Item Locator
- Box 14, Section 24
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- University of Oregon, Department of Classics
- Local Collection Name
- Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- Height: 21.59 cm
- Material
- pottery
- Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Primary Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Cultural Context
- Attic (culture)
- Id Current Repository
- 1873,0820.304
