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"Wild Goat Style" Oinochoe (Wine Pitcher): Wild Goats and Geese

"Wild Goat Style" Oinochoe (Wine Pitcher): Wild Goats and Geese

Greek

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.

Terracotta

Orientalizing period

Vessels