Eye Cup [Gr18]
Athenian Red-Figure, by the Winchester Painter, 520-500 BC
Painted terracotta (h. 13.3 cm, w. 41.3 cm), mended with small restorations
Interior: Satyr holding thyrsus and wineskin. Exterior: Naked athletes exercising with halteres (jumping weights). This large kylix [...]
Fragment of a Cup [Gr20]
Athenian Red-Figure, near the Ambrosios Painter, 515-500 BC
Painted terracotta (h. 5.1 cm, w. 6.8 cm)
This fragment is from the interior of a drinking cup. Not enough is preserved to decipher the scene depicted, though the man is wearing [...]
Fragment of a Calyx Krater [Gr27]
Athenian Red-Figure, c. 500 BC
Painted terracotta (h. 3.6 cm, w. 4.8 cm)
Interior: painted black. Exterior: head of a Nike This fragment belonged to a calyx krater, a large vessel shaped like the cup (or [...]
Lekythos [Gr123]
Athenian Red-Figure, by the Icarus Painter, 475-450 BC
Painted terracotta
A bearded male figure seated on a throne. He wears a wreath, chiton and himation. In his left hand he holds a sceptre, and in his right [...]
Cup [Gr19]
Athenian Black-Figure, by the Wedding Painter, c. 460 BC
Painted terracotta (h. 9 cm, w. 29.7 cm), mended with small restorations
Interior: painted black, reserved tondo with a youth and a boy, inscription (misspelt) to the left of the boy: ΗΟΠΑΙΣΚ[Α]EIΣ. Exterior: [...]
Lekythos [Gr30]
Athenian Red-Figure, near the Painter of London E 342, c. 460 BC
Painted terracotta (h. 35.3 cm, d. 11.9 cm), mended and restored
A winged Nike standing in front of an altar, holding a phiale in her right hand. On the shoulder, a pattern of palmettes and lotus buds [...]
Skyphos [Gr21]
Athenian Red-Figure, by the Painter of Louvre CA 1849, c. 450 BC
Painted terracotta (h. 15.3 cm, w. 27.5 cm), mended and restored
Two athletes, one on each side of the handles. Palmettes below each handle. The figures on the exterior of this drinking cup are [...]
Pyxis and Lid [Gr25]
Athenian Red-Figure, c. 450 BC
Painted terracotta (h. 9.5 cm, d. 11.5), mended with restorations to the lid
The lid decorated with a palmette frieze, around the body five women in an interior with a bird and a hare. Pyxides (boxes) like this [...]
Lekythos [Gr88]
Athenian Red-Figure, by the Aischines Painter, c. 450 BC
Painted terracotta (h. 10.6 cm, d. 7.2 cm), mended
A youth holding two spears. On the shoulder palmettes joined by tendrils, below the shoulder a key pattern between lines. The youth on [...]
Lekythos [Gr31]
Athenian Red-Figure, by the Dessypri Painter, 450-440 BC
Painted terracotta (h. 25.3 cm, d. 8.3 cm)
A winged Nike wearing chiton and himation, her hair in a sakkos decorated with dots. Palmettes on the shoulder, below the shoulder a [...]
Oinochoe [Gr22]
Athenian Red-Figure, 430-420 BC
Painted terracotta, (h. 13.2 cm, d. 9.3 cm), mended
A dancing satyr holding a wine skin. Oinochoai were a type of jug or pitcher whose name means literally ‘wine pourer’. They might be [...]
Oinochoe [Gr23]
Athenian Red-Figure, 430-420 BC
Painted terracotta (h. 18.3 cm, d. 13.3 cm), mended and restored
A horse and griffin confronted, both raising their front legs off the ground. Many painted vases were made for use at the symposium, a [...]
Hydria [Gr24]
Athenian Red-Figure, by the Washing Painter, 430-420 BC
Painted terracotta (h. 18.5 cm, w. 16.9 cm), mended with extensive restoration
A naked woman holding a bundle of clothes, in front of her a wool basket and a chair. On the right Eros stands naked, holding an [...]
Pelike [Gr105]
Athenian Red-Figure, by the Washing Painter, 430-420 BC
Painted terracotta (h. 12.5 cm)
Two women with a wool basket between them. On the reverse a youth walking. Literature: J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure [...]
Pelike [Gr26]
Athenian Red-Figure, 430-420 BC
Painted terracotta (h. 18.5 cm, d. 15.1 cm), mended and restored
A decorative band at the neck, on the body a man in himation opposite a satyr and a maenad. This vase shows a satyr reaching towards a [...]
Oinochoe [Gr89]
Athenian Red-Figure, 420-400 BC
Painted terracotta (h. 14.9 cm)
Two women in an interior. One is seated, perhaps juggling with balls of wool. The other holds a wool basket aloft. Wool-working was an [...]
Miniature Squat Lekythos [Gr29]
Athenian Red-Figure, 420-390 BC
Painted terracotta (h. 8 cm, d. 5.3 cm)
The narrow neck of this vase indicates that it was used for storing oil, perhaps for anointing the body in the gymnasium or making a [...]
Fragment of a Bell Krater [Gr28]
Athenian Red-Figure, early 4th century BC
Painted terracotta (h. 11.4 cm, w. 14 cm), mended from two fragments
Marsyas with a muse, part of a third figure (possibly Apollo) on the right This fragment shows the musical contest between Apollo and [...]