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"Wild Goat Style" Oinochoe (Wine Pitcher): Wild Goats and Geese
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Trefoil-mouthed oinochoe (wine pitcher) of light reddish-brown clay containing some mica, with white slip and dark brown painted decoration that has in places misfired to red (additional red highlights?). The decoration consists of a guilloche on the neck, five and a half water birds on the shoulder, four grazing wild goats on the belly, and a lotus and bud chain on the base; various filling ornaments appear in the two animal friezes. The handle is a modern restoration.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Formerly Hearst Collection; purchased from Muenzen und Medaillen Basel Switzerland.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum David M. Robinson Fund
Title: "Wild Goat Style" Oinochoe (Wine Pitcher): Wild Goats and Geese
Description:
Trefoil-mouthed oinochoe (wine pitcher) of light reddish-brown clay containing some mica, with white slip and dark brown painted decoration that has in places misfired to red (additional red highlights?).
The decoration consists of a guilloche on the neck, five and a half water birds on the shoulder, four grazing wild goats on the belly, and a lotus and bud chain on the base; various filling ornaments appear in the two animal friezes.
The handle is a modern restoration.
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