Title
White-ground oinochoe (jug)
Date
circa 490-470 BCE
Creator
Brygos Painter (attributed to)
Attic
Coverage
Style/Period: Attic
Discovery Site: Made in Attica, Greece.
Greek & Roman Antiquities Department, The British Museum, London. Purchased from Alessandro Castellani.
Accession Number: 1873,0820.304
Type
containers; decorative arts
Format
pottery, white ground
21.59 cm high
Description
"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 Library 2019)
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 Library 2019)
Language
Greek
Subject
spinner; spinning
Identifier
UO-MCA-BM-1873-0820-304
Source
The British Museum. 2019. “Jug” britishmuseum. Accessed March 29. https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?assetId=34686001&objectId=399971&partId=1
Rights
© Trustees of the British Museum