Collection Online
Medium
earthenware
Measurements
42.8 × 40.8 × 35.0 cm
Place/s of Execution
Lucania, Italy
Accession Number
D150-1977
Department
Antiquities
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1977
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Gallery location
Not on display
Physical description
Large open vessel with globular/ovoid body, short thick neck below a flat rim, with twin columnar handles rising from the shoulder to plates extending from the rim. On the edge of the rim is a band of laurel. On the neck of Side A, a panel of ivy pattern. On the top of the rim, ivy pattern. Side A: two pairs of figures, a draped female facing a youth, naked except for drapery over his arm. These are palaestra scenes. Side B: two pairs of draped youths facing each other, less carefully drawn.