Red Figure Footed Plate

Red Figure Footed Plate

4th century BCE

Unknown (Greek, Apulian)

South Italian; Apulian; Greek

Style/Period: Apulian; South Italian; Greek; Red-figure

Discovery Site: Unknown

Repository: Museum of Classical Antiquities, University of Ottawa / Musée d'antiquités gréco-romaines, Université d'Ottawa

decorative art

Materials/Techniques: terracotta (clay material); ceramic (material); wheel-made; red-figure vase painting

Measurements: 3.8 cm high; 26 cm in diameter (lip); 8.5 cm in diameter (foot)

The surface has a central tondo, in which is displayed a female head in profile, with hair tied in a bun and held in place by a kekryphalos (hair net) highlighted with white and ochre paint. Below her chin is a small libation bowl, behind her head, a small mirror. The tondo composition is framed by a series of concentric decorative borders; from inner to outer: a border of wave pattern in red (reserve) is created by the juxtaposed black painted wave pattern; a band of reserve is followed by a border of leaves in white, and finally a pattern of bars on the rim. Decorated in the red figure style and technique: details are rendered prior to firing in black, with extensive use of white, and ochre paint for the decorative border, hairnet and details of libation bowl and mirror; the contour of the figure and parts of the libation bowl and mirror are in reserve.

female; Apulian; South Italian; ceramic ware; plate

Repository Accession Number: 992.1.1

Record: UO-MCA-992-1-1

Cataloguer: Samantha Chicoyne, University of Ottawa; Curator Antonia Holden

Photographer: Morgan Weir, University of Ottawa

Image Date: 2018-02-16

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