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Pitcher (oinochoe)
Greek
Late Geometric Period
740–730 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Boiotia
Medium/Technique
Ceramic
Dimensions
Height: 33.1 cm (13 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Catharine Page Perkins Fund
Accession Number97.360
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 286.
DescriptionClay warm red. Oinochoe with trefoil mouth. Handle has horizontal lines. At lip a band of cross-hatching; dark band. On neck: lines, band of zig-zags, panel with hatched meander, band of zig-zags. On shoulder: band of cross-hatched triangles, larger band of cross-hatched triangles; band of hatched zig-zags interrupted by two relief breasts, painted black. On belly: band of running concentric circles, lines, band of zig-zags; lower part of vase has large areas of slip, thin lines and thin bands of reserve.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in Athens.); 1897: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren for $ 25,000.00 (this figure is the total price for MFA 97.285-97.442 and 97.1104)