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Red-figure Bell Krater: Seated Woman with a Flowering Branch

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Side A: In the center a woman seated on a rock to right looking back. She wears a chiton, opisthosphendone, earrings, necklace, bracelets, and shoes, and rests her right hand on the rock while in her left she holds a flower branch. At the left, facing her, stands a nude youth wearing a fillet in his hair, holding his cloak over his left arm and carrying a strigil in his right. At the right another woman clad like the first but without the shoes, holding a flower in her right hand and a diadem or wreath in her left. Plants are growing on the rock, and on the rock and above the design are yellow engobes. In the field a wheel? Side B: Three mantle figures wearing fillets, the central figure with a staff, that on the right holding a strigil. Inside rim, two narrow reserved bands. Outside rim, lateral leaf border. Above picture on Side A ovolo border and below on each side meander and saltire squares border. At joint of handles a tongue pattern and below a palmette. Applied yellow is used for the fillets, necklaces, bracelets, earring, and flower. Hair outline reserved in all figures. Drawing on B greatly inferior to that of A.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics Joseph Clark Hoppin purchased in Rome 1899; bequest to Fogg Art Museum 1925. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Bequest of Joseph C. Hoppin
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Title: Red-figure Bell Krater: Seated Woman with a Flowering Branch
Description:
Side A: In the center a woman seated on a rock to right looking back.
She wears a chiton, opisthosphendone, earrings, necklace, bracelets, and shoes, and rests her right hand on the rock while in her left she holds a flower branch.
At the left, facing her, stands a nude youth wearing a fillet in his hair, holding his cloak over his left arm and carrying a strigil in his right.
At the right another woman clad like the first but without the shoes, holding a flower in her right hand and a diadem or wreath in her left.
Plants are growing on the rock, and on the rock and above the design are yellow engobes.
In the field a wheel? Side B: Three mantle figures wearing fillets, the central figure with a staff, that on the right holding a strigil.
Inside rim, two narrow reserved bands.
Outside rim, lateral leaf border.
Above picture on Side A ovolo border and below on each side meander and saltire squares border.
At joint of handles a tongue pattern and below a palmette.
Applied yellow is used for the fillets, necklaces, bracelets, earring, and flower.
Hair outline reserved in all figures.
Drawing on B greatly inferior to that of A.

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