Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
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Woman with distaff in left hand, spindle and whorl in right

Alternative Title
  • Vase D13
  • Jug
Creator Display
  • attributed to Brygos Painter (Ancient Greek vase painter, active ca. 490-ca. 470 BCE)
Creator
Photographer
Date
  • -0490/-0470
Description
  • Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
  • Pottery: White-ground oinochoe. A woman in a long sleeved, dotted chiton, a bordered himation, and sandals, with earrings, bracelets, and hair wound into a ball on the neck and fastened with a fillet, standing to right, twisting between the thumb and first finger of her right hand a thread from a hank of wool on a distaff which she holds up with her left. On the right, HEΠAIΣ KAΛΕ, ή παΐς καλή. The neck, handle, and foot are glazed black; the surface of the neck is slightly raised above that of the shoulder. The edge of the lip is coloured purple; at the base of the handle is an inverted palmette below a strip of egg pattern, and below the moulding on the shoulder is a band of tongue pattern; all red on black. The body is covered with a white engobe, on which the design is drawn in black outline. Purple is used for fillet, bracelets, sandals, wool, and spindle. Light brown for inner markings and upper folds of chiton and inscription. The hair is drawn in dark brown lines on a wash of light brown. Eye archaic. Below, a thin brown line. --The British Museum
View
  • Front
View Date
  • 1985-09
Temporal
  • ca. 490-470 BCE
Coverage
  • Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation)
  • Locri, Calabria, Italy (discovery)
Inscription
  • HEΠAIΣ KAΛΕ, ή παΐς καλή.
Keyword
  • Pottery V
  • Red Figure, White, Animal
  • White Ground Plates, etc.
Work Type
Cultural Context
Style / Period
Material
  • pottery
Measurements
  • Height: 21.59 cm
Rights Holder
  • University of Oregon, Department of Classics
Identifier
  • Lowenstam_VRC_06497
Item Locator
  • Box 14, Section 24
Repository
Current Repository ID
  • 1873,0820.304
Local Collection Name
Institution
Submission Date
  • 08/03/2015
Modified
  • 07/25/2022
Collections

APA

Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology, University of Oregon. (25 Apr 2024). Woman with distaff in left hand, spindle and whorl in right Retrieved from https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df691h47b

MLA

Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology, University of Oregon. "Woman with distaff in left hand, spindle and whorl in right" Oregon Digital. 25 Apr 2024. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df691h47b

Chicago

Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology, University of Oregon. "Woman with distaff in left hand, spindle and whorl in right" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2024-04-25. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df691h47b

Wiki

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