GNATHIAN EPICHYSIS

GNATHIAN EPICHYSIS

Reel-shaped body with high handle curving above to beaked mouth, small head applique at either side; added decoration of vertical stripes in white at lower part of neck, shoulder decorated with two opposite rows of grapes and tendrils in white and yellow, divided by central line in red; row of white stripes below.

Ex priv. coll. J.H.S, Amsterdam 1976
H. 17 cm; beak repaired, small chip fom base, otherwise intact

Last quarter 4th cent. BC

Cf. Hornbostel, Kunst der Antike, no 320; J.R. Green, Gnathia Pottery, Bonn 1976