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Oil flask (aryballos) with an ox's head between birds

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Oil flask (aryballos) with an ox's head between birds

Artist:
Culture: Greek
Period: Early Corinthian
Date: ca. 600 BC
Medium: Terracotta, black-figure technique
Dimensions:
2 13/16 x 2 15/16 in. (7.1 x 7.4 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: 85.119.9
Provenance: sold by Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg, to San Antonio Museum of Art, 1985
Published References Galerie Günter Puhze, Kunst der Antike, Kat. 6, 1985, p. 17, no. 168 H.A. Shapiro, C.A. Picon, and G.D. Scott, III, ed., Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio, 1995) p. 55, no. 14
Label Text
Around 700 B.C. vase-painters in Corinth invented a new technique, called black-figure because the figures and decorative motifs were painted in black silhouette against the lighter ground of the clay. The painter then made incisions with a sharp tool through the black gloss to indicate details in the lighter color of the clay. On this vase incisions delineate, for example, the ox’s eyes and muzzle and the birds’ wings. (Jessica Powers, 2008)
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