Alabastron [Formerly Museum No. 95]
Early Corinthian, late 7th or early 6th century BC
Painted terracotta (h. 3.5 inches)
A siren occupying the whole field, with a red face and breast, filling ornament of clumsily incised rosettes. Rays on mouth and neck, dots on rim, vertical black line on handle. On the base a dot rosette.
Literature: Winchester College Memorial Buildings: Department of Classical Art (Winchester, 1909), p. 24 (no. 95)
Provenance: Unknown, at Winchester College by 1962, stolen from Winchester c. 1965; sold Christie’s, 23rd February 1965, part lot. 160 (the second item), where purchased by Ernest Ohly (Berkeley Galleries)