Small red figure kantharos

Small red figure kantharos

4th century BCE

Unknown (Greek, Apulian)

South Italian; Apulian; Greek

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

Discovery Site: Unknown

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

decorative art|containers|religious and cult objects|vase painting

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

Measurements: 17.7 cm high

Red Figure kantharos with volute handles. On each side a generic composition associated with the cult of Dionysus (Bacchus). One side depicts a satyr approaching an altar, holding an offering dish in his left hand and a torch in his right hand. A tambourine-type instrument is shown suspended in the air between the satyr and the torch. Rim is adorned with ivy pattern; beneath the ground plane (on which the satyr rests) is a border of ogive pattern. The other side depicts a maenad seated in profile on a rocky outcropping, holding a tambourine with her left hand, and a thyrsos in her right. A disc-shaped and a rectangular form are included in the composition, between the figure and the thyrsos, simply to fill in space. Each composition is defined by a vertical foliate border. Rim is adorned with ivy pattern; beneath the ground plane (on which the satyr rests) is a border of wave pattern. Decorated in the red figure style and technique: details are rendered in black, white, and ochre before firing; the contour of the figure, and parts of the decorative elements are in reserve.

satyrs; female; kantharoi; thyrsuses

Repository Accession Number: 990.11.2

Record: UO-MCA-990-11-2

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

Photographer: Niġel Klemenčič-Puglisevich, Carleton University

Image Date: 2018-02-16

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