Pottery: black-figured hydria. Design in black on a red panel, with maeander and palmettes above, and borders of dots down the sides; coarsely incised lines. No marked distinction in shape between neck, shoulder, and body. Peleus seizing Thetis: On the left is a blazing altar, with entablature above. On the right is Peleus to right, nude and beardless, armed with a sword, stooping forward and seizing Thetis round the waist. She has long hair, long chiton and himation, arms extended. Behind her, wings indicating one of her metamorphoses. On the right, part of a palmette. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 8, British Museum 6, London, BMP, 1931
Pottery: black-figured hydria. Design in black on a red panel, with maeander and palmettes above, and borders of dots down the sides; coarsely incised lines. No marked distinction in shape between neck, shoulder, and body. Peleus seizing Thetis: On the left is a blazing altar, with entablature above. On the right is Peleus to right, nude and beardless, armed with a sword, stooping forward and seizing Thetis round the waist. She has long hair, long chiton and himation, arms extended. Behind her, wings indicating one of her metamorphoses. On the right, part of a palmette. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 8, British Museum 6, London, BMP, 1931
Pottery: black-figured hydria. Design in black on a red panel, with maeander and palmettes above, and borders of dots down the sides; coarsely incised lines. No marked distinction in shape between neck, shoulder, and body. Peleus seizing Thetis: On the left is a blazing altar, with entablature above. On the right is Peleus to right, nude and beardless, armed with a sword, stooping forward and seizing Thetis round the waist. She has long hair, long chiton and himation, arms extended. Behind her, wings indicating one of her metamorphoses. On the right, part of a palmette. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 8, British Museum 6, London, BMP, 1931
Pottery: black-figured hydria. Imperfectly fired. Designs in black on red panels, with borders of ivy down the sides; accessories of white and purple. 1. On the shoulder: Judgment of Paris: Paris is moving rapidly away to right; he is bearded, with long chiton, himation, and endromides, and spear in right hand. He is looking back at Hermes, who advances to right, leading up the goddesses; he is bearded, and has petasos, chlamys, endromides, and caduceus in right hand. Hera comes first, with long hair, fillet, long chiton and himation, both embroidered, sceptre in right hand. Next, Athene, with high-crested helmet, long chiton and himation, both embroidered, spear in right hand. She is looking back at Aphrodite who has long hair, long chiton and himation, both embroidered, and sceptre in right hand; all three have the left hand raised. 2. On the body: Contest of Heracles with Triton: Heracles, in short chiton and lion's skin, has seized the Triton from behind, with legs astride round his fish-body, and left arm round his breast; the Triton has a wreath, long tresses, and a long pointed beard; his body from the breast downwards ends in a long fish's tail with scales incised. On the left stands Nereus to right, with white tresses and beard, in long chiton and himation, both embroidered; in left hand a staff, right hand raised. On the right stands a Nereid to left, with long hair, fillet, long chiton and himation, both embroidered, right hand raised, holding a flower. 3. Below, a panther to left looking back between two goats; on either side of them a palmette. --The British Museum, 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; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 8, British Museum 6, London, BMP, 1931