Red-Figure Oinochoe (Wine Jug): Eros and Woman

Description

This wine jug provides the name for the Cleveland Group, comprising more than 20 similar vases decorated in the "Ornate" style of Apulian red-figure pottery. Close in style to the better known Darius Painter and the Patera and Ganymede Painters, many Cleveland Group vases feature very effeminate Eros figures like this one, here holding two phialai (libation bowls) and facing a woman before a harp.

Provenance

Altounian Lorbet, Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art (?-1928); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1928-)

Red-Figure Oinochoe (Wine Jug): Eros and Woman

Cleveland Group

c. 340–320 BCE

Accession Number

1928.601

Medium

ceramic

Dimensions

Overall: 27.9 x 12.1 cm (11 x 4 3/4 in.)

Classification

Ceramic

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund