[No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Title
- [No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Pelike Vase F324
- Creator
- Pittore dell'Ilioupersis
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- attributed to Iliupersis Painter (Ancient Greek vase painter, active ca. 375-ca. 350 BCE)
- Description
- Pottery: red-figured pelike (jar). Designs red on black ground, with white accessories. On the neck, (a) palmettes, egg-pattern, and white pendants, (b) laurel-wreath and wave-pattern. Under the handles, palmettes; below, maeander and crosses. (a) Toilet-scene: In the centre is a tall tree with fruit, painted white; below is a female figure seated in a chair to left, with long curls, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton, himation veiling her head, and shoes; in right hand she holds up a mirror. Behind her is a female figure to left, with curly hair tied in a bunch, open embroidered cap, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton, and sandals, in right hand a fan; behind her, a ball. On the left is a female figure turned to the front, with long curls, bracelet on right arm, long chiton, himation wrapped round her and drawn over her head, and sandals, in right hand a wreath. The ground-lines are indicated as usual. (b) Ephebos to right, wrapped in a himation, with sandals; facing him is a nude ephebos with left arm muffled in drapery, staff in left hand and strigil in right with which he is about to scrape himself. Behind the latter is an ephebos with himation over left shoulder, and sandals, holding out a phiale. Above, an embroidered taenia and a ball. --The British Museum Trendall, A D; Cambitoglou, Alexander, The red-figured vases of Apulia, Volumes 1-2, Oxford, Clarendon press, 1978; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
- View
- Back
- Coverage
- Apulia, Italy (creation) Egnazia, Apulia, Italy (discovery)
- Temporal
- ca. 370-350 BCE
- Subject
- Iliupersis Painter Pottery VI--Italian
- Style Period
- Red-figure Apulian (pottery style)
- Work Type
- pelikai
- Date
- -0370/-0350
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_06741
- Item Locator
- Box 15, Section 18
- 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: 37.5 cm Width: 23.4 cm Weight: 1.9 kg
- Material
- pottery | painted
- 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
- Apulian (culture or style)
- Id Current Repository
- 1856,1226.17
