CLARK COLLECTION OF ANCIENT ART:

OINOCHOAI




EC.53.05

Culture: South Italian

Item: Trefoil oinochoe (pitcher)

Date: Later 4th century BCE

Description: Black-glazed oinochoe with incised verticle lines and wavy line around center. Double handle 'knotted' at the arch.

Dimensions:
h: 9 in. (22.9 cm)
d: 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm)

EC.53.21

Culture: Attic

Item: Trefoil oinochoe

Date: c. 490-480 BCE

Description: Red-figured oinochoe decorated with the form of a youthful female head wearing saccos with white laurel band. Arching handle. "Cevetri 5�" [sic] written in pencil on bottom.

An exact copy of this vase is held in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. See Herbert Hoffmann's Ten Centuries that Shaped the West: Greek and Roman Art in Texas Collections, Houston: Rice University, [1970], fig. 179.

Dimensions:
h: 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)
d: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)

� 1998 Bock Studio, Ripon, WI
EC.53.22

Culture: Etruscan

Item: Trefoil oinochoe

Date: c. 350-320 BCE

Description: 'Plastic' vase in the form of a Nubian head wearing laurel wreath. Shoulder bears open wave meander. Beaked spout and small black rotelles.

Dimensions:
h: 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm)
d: 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm)

EC.53.31

Culture: Italo-Corinthian

Item: Miniature trefoil oinochoe

Date: 6th century BCE

Description: Yellowish clay decorated with orange lines and one band of wave pattern.

Dimensions:
h: 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm)
d: 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)

EC.53.36

Culture: Etruscan

Item: Beaked oinochoe

Date: Later 4th century BCE

Description: Of typical form, decorated in black slip with spirals and palmettes centering a bird.

Dimensions:
h: 7 1/2 in. (19.05 cm)
d: 4 in. (10.2 cm)

EC.53.37

Culture: Etruscan

Item: Miniature beaked oinochoe

Date: Late 4th century BCE

Description: Black-glazed oinochoe with laurel band in applied yellow-white paint.

Dimensions:
h: 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm)
d: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)

EC.53.38

Culture: South Italian

Item: Miniature olpe

Date: Late 4th century BCE

Description: White clay. No decoration. One handle.

Dimensions:
h: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm)
d: 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm)

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