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236 CATALOGUE OF VASES.

VASES WITH RELIEFS OR MOULDED (Gi-194; see p. 24).
Gi-26. VASES OF ATHENIAN STYLE, FOURTH CENTURY B.C.

G 1. PROCHOOS. Ht. irfin. Vulci, 1842. Steuart Coll. Mon. delP Inst. v. pi. 48, and

Ann. 1852, p. 357 ; Dennis, Cities and Cent, of Etruria? i. p. 464. On the lip of the vase are
two rosettes ; below the lower handle, acanthus-leaves.

The vase has a double handle, and is in the form of a female head, perhaps
Athene, painted white, blue, green, and pink, with gilding nearly worn away ;
the hair is pink, the flesh white. On the head is a wreath of flowers, gilt; the
earrings are in the form of rosettes with pendants in the shape of archaic
female figures with recurved wings, ending in decorative ornaments with two
pendants each side, all gilt on red ground ; gilt necklace, and drapery below
fastened with a stud; the back of the head has been painted blue. The
hair is arranged in rich and carefully-executed curls. On the top of the head
are three figures in relief: (1) a female figure seated on a panther to r. with
face to front in long blue girt chiton, pink himation, and shoes; (2) a
female head with cap and rich curls, rising from a green calyx of acanthus-
leaves ; (3) a female figure seated to 1., in long blue girt chiton and pink
himation, with blue drapery underneath her ; she looks up to r. and holds out
a fruit in r. hand.

G 2. OINOCHOE. Ht. 3I in. Athens, 1814. Burgon Coll. Top of vase and handle

broken off. Design in colour of clay ; back glazed. Trefoil mouth.

In front, a relief of the youthful Dionysos, seated on drapery, with richly-
curling hair and endromides; in r. hand an oinocJioe, in 1. a cornucopia containing
flowers ; background of ivy leaves.

G 3. OINOCHOE. Ht. 5^ in. From Capua. Castellani, 1873.

Youthful Dionysos as last vase ; endromides black and red, oinochoe black
and red, hair purple. Background of green vine with bunches of grapes (left
in the colour of the clay).

G 4. OINOCHOE. Ht. 4^ in. Melos, 182S. Burgon Coll. Mouth and handle broken.

Black glaze with white slip, imperfectly fired.

Youthful Dionysos crouching down to the front, nude, with top-knot
and long curls, in r. hand a cornucopia ; he is in an arbour represented by a
canopy of leaves.
 
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