Terracotta hydria: kalpis (water jar)

Syleus Painter

ca. 480–470 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art

Youth and boy; inscribed the boy is fair The handles of this terracotta hydria, with a broad palmette where the handle joins the body, are influenced by their counterparts in bronze. On a terracotta work, the palmette is purely decorative. On a bronze hydria, the broad handle attachment, which may assume many forms, strengthens the points of contact to the body of the vase.

Artist

Syleus Painter

Date

ca. 480–470 BCE

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek, Attic

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1911