Oinochoe (Pitcher)

Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

end of 4th century BCE

Attributed to the Mattinata Painter
Greek; Apulia, Italy

This vase depicts a woman shown running to the right, but turning back to the left. She wears a peplos and a white sakkos (hat), snake bracelets and a necklace. She carries in her right hand a wicker-work kanoun (topped by pomegranates and what seem to be small torches), as well as a fillet and a rosette wreath over her forearm. In her left hand is a large fan. Below her left arm is a large, elaborate tambourine.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

Culture: Ancient Greek
Title: Oinochoe (Pitcher)
Place: Greece (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 325 BCE–299 BCE
Medium: terracotta, red-figure
Dimensions: 37.4 × 13.9 × 13.9 cm (14 3/4 × 5 1/2 × 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago
Reference Number: 1889.87
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Art Institute of Chicago, Preliminary Catalogue of Metal Work, Graeco-Italian Vases, and Antiquities, December 9, 1889 (Chicago: Early and Halla Printing Company, 1889), p. 40, no. 331.
Arthur Dale Trendall and Alexander Cambitougou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978), p. 1029, no. 66, plate 398, 4.

Pio Marinangeli, Rome; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1889.

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