Terracotta oinochoe (jug)
Andokides Painter
ca. 530 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art
Centaur and bird, snake, and hare At the handle, pair of eyes, incised. Lateral extensions of the handle, at the rim, end in plastic monkeys' heads. The decoration of this jug illustrates the combination of technical ambition and artistic uncertainty that often appears in the very earliest red-figure vases. The artist here is proficient in the new medium, but he still employs some black-figure conventions, as indicated by the incised eyes.
- Artist
- Andokides Painter
- Date
- ca. 530 BCE
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- Greek, Attic
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- Purchase, Arthur Darby Nock Bequest, in memory of Gisela M. A. Richter, 1974
