Greek red-figure skyphos

An image of Vessel. Red-figure skyphos. A red-figure skyphos on a ring foot, with two horizontal handles just under the rim of the vessel. Side (a) displays a seated female figure with phiale and wreath, side (b) a seated nude youth with a phiale and wreath. Both figures sit on rocks. Stylistically the vessel belongs to the ‘Rochester group’ which is characterized by a preference for the so-called ‘open treatment’ of the breast (where the whole area is defined by two curves leaving the space between them empty) as well as a preference for depicting the drapery in bunches of two or three folds. Production Place: Apulia. 350-325 B.C.

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Vessel. Red-figure skyphos. A red-figure skyphos on a ring foot, with two horizontal handles just under the rim of the vessel. Side (a) displays a seated female figure with phiale and wreath, side (b) a seated nude youth with a phiale and wreath. Both figures sit on rocks. Stylistically the vessel belongs to the ‘Rochester group’ which is characterized by a preference for the so-called ‘open treatment’ of the breast (where the whole area is defined by two curves leaving the space between them empty) as well as a preference for depicting the drapery in bunches of two or three folds. Production Place: Apulia. 350-325 B.C.

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Accession Number: GR.4.2014
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 768 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 76.30kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2014:02:20 16:00:11

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4th Century Ancient Greece antiquity BC Classical Greek Period clay cup diadem dress drinking vessel fashion female Fitz_ANT Greek hair handle handled headdress palmettes pottery red-figured seated sitting skyphoi skyphos two-handled vessel woman

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