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Detail of a Terracotta Loutrophoros Attributed to the Metope Painter in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2011
Terracotta loutrophoros (ceremonial vase for water)
Attributed to the Metope Painter
Period: Late Classical
Date: 3rd quarter of the 4th century B.C.
Culture: Greek, South Italian, Apulian
Medium: Terracotta; red-figure
Classification: Vases
Credit Line: Purchase, The Bernard and Audrey Aronson Charitable Trust Gift, in memory of her beloved husband, Bernard Aronson, 1995
Accession Number: 1995.45.1
Description:
On the body, obverse, woman with attendant in naiskos (shrine) flanked by youth and women
Reverse, woman in naiskos flanked by youths and women
On the shoulder, obverse, Eros with alabastron and mirror within foliage
Reverse, head of a woman within foliage
This imposing and beautifully executed vase, together with its counterpart exhibited here, is of exceptional interest for the architectural structure on the obverse. A small naiskos, rendered with three columns, encloses a woman, her maid who holds out a small casket, and a metal loutrophoros. Between the level on which they stand and the podium for the shrine are two panels with a pair of confronted lions. The podium itself consists of an upper frieze of triglyphs, alternating with metopes showing Greeks fighting Amazons. The lower element is covered with tendrils enclosing a female head. Although naiskoi are common on Apulian vases, the complexity and elaboration here are unusual. The unresolved question is to what extent the representation reflects actual funerary structures and the limestone reliefs
familiar especially from Tarentum.
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/256207
Attributed to the Metope Painter
Period: Late Classical
Date: 3rd quarter of the 4th century B.C.
Culture: Greek, South Italian, Apulian
Medium: Terracotta; red-figure
Classification: Vases
Credit Line: Purchase, The Bernard and Audrey Aronson Charitable Trust Gift, in memory of her beloved husband, Bernard Aronson, 1995
Accession Number: 1995.45.1
Description:
On the body, obverse, woman with attendant in naiskos (shrine) flanked by youth and women
Reverse, woman in naiskos flanked by youths and women
On the shoulder, obverse, Eros with alabastron and mirror within foliage
Reverse, head of a woman within foliage
This imposing and beautifully executed vase, together with its counterpart exhibited here, is of exceptional interest for the architectural structure on the obverse. A small naiskos, rendered with three columns, encloses a woman, her maid who holds out a small casket, and a metal loutrophoros. Between the level on which they stand and the podium for the shrine are two panels with a pair of confronted lions. The podium itself consists of an upper frieze of triglyphs, alternating with metopes showing Greeks fighting Amazons. The lower element is covered with tendrils enclosing a female head. Although naiskoi are common on Apulian vases, the complexity and elaboration here are unusual. The unresolved question is to what extent the representation reflects actual funerary structures and the limestone reliefs
familiar especially from Tarentum.
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/256207
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