Podanipfer

Title: Podanipfer
Repository: British Museum
Alternative: Podanipter Old Catalogue 1615 Vase F457
Creator: Pittore dei Conservatori 164
Photographer: Lowenstam, Steven
Creator Display: attributed to Painter of Conservatori 164 (Greek vase painter, active ca. 355-340 BCE)
Description: Pottery: red-figured podanipter (foot-bath). Designs red and white on black ground, with yellow accessories. Round the edge, egg-moulding; between the exterior designs, palmettes and rosettes; below all round, maeander. Vertical handles with knobs on the top and on either side; on the handles, laurel; on the knobs, stars in white. Interior, in a medallion with vine-wreath in white all round: A luxuriant plant with tendrils and flowers; on a large flower in the centre rests a female head turned partly to right, with curly hair, beaded ampyx, earrings, and double necklace. Below, wave-pattern; in the exergue, three rosettes of dots. Exterior: (a) Youth seated to left on rocky ground, with fillet (ends floating), and drapery under him, in right hand a phiale containing flowers and fruit; a laurel-branch leans against his left arm. In front of him is a rosette; ground-lines indicated below him. He looks back at a female figure seated on a rock to left, with hair tied in a bunch, open cap radiated in front, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton with looped-up sleeves, himation over lower limbs, and shoes, in right hand a wreath, in left a cista ornamented with chevron pattern; above, two rosettes. (b) Female figure seated on a rock to right, attired as the one on (a); in left hand a cista ornamented with chevron patterns; above her, a star. Before her is a youth as on (a), looking back, in left hand a phiale containing flowers, in right hand a bunch of grapes; against his right arm is a laurel-branch. Above are two rosettes; the ground-lines are indicated. --The British Museum Trendall, A D; Cambitoglou, Alexander, The red-figured vases of Apulia, Volumes 1-2, Oxford, Clarendon press, 1978; A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Rawson, Jessica, Chinese Ornament: The Lotus and the Dragon, London, BMP, 1984
View: Interior
Coverage: Apulia, Italy (creation)
Temporal: ca. 350 BCE
Subject: Books 19-23 Odyssey II Penelope and Odysseus
Style Period: Red-figure Apulian (pottery style)
Work Type: washbowls
Date: -0355/-0345
Identifier: Lowenstam_VRC_02381
Item Locator: Box 6, 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: 13 cm Diameter: 38.4 cm Width: 2.28 cm
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: 1824,0501.31