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Ballaryballos ('pot belly dancers'), Formerly Ernest Brummer Collection, clay, disc-turned, painted (ceramic), fired (ceramic), Total: Height: 10.6 cm; Diameter: 9.8 cm; Muzzle diameter: 5.1 cm, ceramic, dancers, dance (at festivities), ornaments, early archaic, middle archaic, Greek antiquity, The shoulder of the spherical ointment vessel and the mouth plate are painted with a tongue band, the outside of the handle is decorated with a horizontal row of sticks. The base, on the other hand, is decorated with a seven-pointed star. In the late Corinthian manner, the surrounding picture zone is filled over and over with clinker rosettes alternating with dots of varnish. The outside of the vessel shows a total of seven bearded pot-bellied dancers: two pairs of opposite dancers and a group of three, all of whom are dressed in a red robe. The pot-bellied dancers are among the characteristic pictorial themes of Corinthian ceramics and refer to the exuberant dance after the feast. The vessel form on the other hand, the aryballos, belongs to the field of sports and was worn by the athletes on their wrists. It was filled with scented oil.

Ballaryballos ('pot belly dancers'), Formerly Ernest Brummer Collection, clay, disc-turned, painted (ceramic), fired (ceramic), Total: Height: 10.6 cm; Diameter: 9.8 cm; Muzzle diameter: 5.1 cm, ceramic, dancers, dance (at festivities), ornaments, early archaic, middle archaic, Greek antiquity, The shoulder of the spherical ointment vessel and the mouth plate are painted with a tongue band, the outside of the handle is decorated with a horizontal row of sticks. The base, on the other hand, is decorated with a seven-pointed star. In the late Corinthian manner, the surrounding picture zone is filled over and over with clinker rosettes alternating with dots of varnish. The outside of the vessel shows a total of seven bearded pot-bellied dancers: two pairs of opposite dancers and a group of three, all of whom are dressed in a red robe. The pot-bellied dancers are among the characteristic pictorial themes of Corinthian ceramics and refer to the exuberant dance after the feast. The vessel form on the other hand, the aryballos, belongs to the field of sports and was worn by the athletes on their wrists. It was filled with scented oil.
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Ballaryballos ('pot belly dancers'), Formerly Ernest Brummer Collection, clay, disc-turned, painted (ceramic), fired (ceramic), Total: Height: 10.6 cm; Diameter: 9.8 cm; Muzzle diameter: 5.1 cm, ceramic, dancers, dance (at festivities), ornaments, early archaic, middle archaic, Greek antiquity, The shoulder of the spherical ointment vessel and the mouth plate are painted with a tongue band, the outside of the handle is decorated with a horizontal row of sticks. The base, on the other hand, is decorated with a seven-pointed star. In the late Corinthian manner, the surrounding picture zone is filled over and over with clinker rosettes alternating with dots of varnish. The outside of the vessel shows a total of seven bearded pot-bellied dancers: two pairs of opposite dancers and a group of three, all of whom are dressed in a red robe. The pot-bellied dancers are among the characteristic pictorial themes of Corinthian ceramics and refer to the exuberant dance after the feast. The vessel form on the other hand, the aryballos, belongs to the field of sports and was worn by the athletes on their wrists. It was filled with scented oil.
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3859 x 4320 px | 47.7 MB
Print size:
32.7 x 36.6 cm | 12.9 x 14.4 in (300 dpi)
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