Pottery: white-ground oinochoe. Late black figure style; design black on drab ground, with purple accessories and finely-incised lines. Trefoil mouth, and three-ribbed handle. On the neck, chequer-pattern; below, tongue-pattern, alternately black and outlined. Peleus bringing the infant Achilles to Cheiron: On the left is Cheiron to right, with a horse's body and hind-legs attached behind; he is bearded, with long tresses, striped himation over left shoulder, right hand extended, in left a pine-tree held over the shoulder. In front of him is a tree. On the right is Peleus advancing to left, bearded, with hair curly in front and striped himation, holding the infant Achilles in both arms, the latter also wearing a striped himation. Before them is a dog to right, with right hind-paw and head raised, as if greeting them. The handle terminates on each side of the mouth in a snake's head in relief, with black markings on red; at each junction of the handle with the vase is a female head in relief coloured red, of later date than the rest of the design. Under the handle is a palmette inverted, with tendrils ending in buds. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
Pottery: black-figured oinochoe (wine-jug). Design black on a red panel, with pomegranates above, and cheque-pattern down the sides; accessories of white and purple, faded. Peleus seizing Thetis: Peleus to right, bearded, with a myrtle-wreath on his head and embroidered drapery round his loins, seizes Thetis round the waist; she moves away to right, looking to left, with arms extended; she has long hair, fillet, long chiton and himation, both embroidered. On the right is an altar with top in the form of an Ionic capital. On the left is a similar Nereid, departing and looking back, with arms extended. The folds of the drapery are indicated in all three figures. In the field, branches. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
Pottery: black-figured oinochoe (wine-jug). Design black on a red panel, with borders of dots above and down the sides; accessories of white and purple. Odysseus escaping from Polyphemos: On the right is the Cyclops leaning against the wall of his cave, the eyes drawn without pupils to indicate blindness, right leg drawn up, and right hand extended. Odysseus approaches from the entrance of the cave on the left, tied under the body of the ram; he is nude and bearded. In the background, a tree with fruit. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Beazley, J D, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1956
Pottery: black-figured oinochoe (wine-jug). Design black on a red panel, with borders of dots above and down the sides; accessories of white and purple. Odysseus escaping from Polyphemos: On the right is the Cyclops leaning against the wall of his cave, the eyes drawn without pupils to indicate blindness, right leg drawn up, and right hand extended. Odysseus approaches from the entrance of the cave on the left, tied under the body of the ram; he is nude and bearded. In the background, a tree with fruit. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Beazley, J D, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1956
Pottery: black-figured oinochoe (wine-jug). Design black on a red panel, with borders of dots above and down the sides; accessories of white and purple. Odysseus escaping from Polyphemos: On the right is the Cyclops leaning against the wall of his cave, the eyes drawn without pupils to indicate blindness, right leg drawn up, and right hand extended. Odysseus approaches from the entrance of the cave on the left, tied under the body of the ram; he is nude and bearded. In the background, a tree with fruit. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Beazley, J D, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1956
Pottery: black-figured oinochoe (wine-jug). Design black on a red panel, with borders of dots above and down the sides; accessories of white and purple. Odysseus escaping from Polyphemos: On the right is the Cyclops leaning against the wall of his cave, the eyes drawn without pupils to indicate blindness, right leg drawn up, and right hand extended. Odysseus approaches from the entrance of the cave on the left, tied under the body of the ram; he is nude and bearded. In the background, a tree with fruit. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Beazley, J D, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1956
Pottery: red-figured oinochoe with trefoil mouth. On the body: Apollo and Artemis. On the left Apollo stands holding in his left a chelys, his right resting on his hip; he is a youthful beardless figure with long wavy hair, of which a single tress falls on each shoulder; he wears a long sleeved chiton and himation. He is confronted by Artemis, who holds in her left a bow, and holds up her right hand as if addressing Apollo. She wears a long sleeved chiton, himation fastened on the left shoulder, a quiver, and a radiated stephane; her hair is passed at the end through a roll. On the foot an incised character. Late stage of strong severe style. Brown inner markings and upper folds of chiton; the hair over the forehead in rows of dots in thinned black. The lower folds of the chiton are arranged in regular groups of four each. Below, a strip of pairs of maeanders set alternate ways, separated by dotted cross squares; at the junction of the neck, a strip of egg pattern. --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
Pottery: red-figured oinochoe with trefoil mouth. On body: Nike flying to right towards an altar, holding in her right a thymiaterion, in her left a phiale mesomphalos. Her face, wings and body are en face; she wears an Ionic chiton, a himation over both shoulders, bracelets and a saccos; her hair falls in three wavy tresses on each shoulder; and around her neck is a necklace with cruciform pendant. The thymiaterion has a cover ornamented with rows of dots and zigzags. The altar is in the form of an Ionic capital with volutes supporting a curved rim; from behind (or out of ?) it springs a long shoot with tendrils, terminating in a flower. Later stage of severe style. Purple bracelets. Brown upper folds of chiton, hair over forehead, details of wings and thymiaterion, and necklace. Eyes (full face) of archaic type. Below, a strip of maeander; above, at junction of neck, of egg pattern. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
Pottery: black-figured oinochoe (jug). Design black on a red panel, with maeander above; accessories of white and purple. Quadriga seen from the front, the charioteer slightly bearded, with purple pilos and long white chiton, the folds indicated by wavy lines; on either side of him a small bird flying away. On the left is a male figure, bearded, with long hair, fillet, long white chiton, folds as before, and purple himation, spear in left hand. On the right is a nude beardless male figure with long tresses, purple pilos, and spear in right hand. Below the handle is painted the face of a tiger, with black markings on red, the ears in purple and white. --The British Museum