LaurieAnnie's photos with the keyword: pitcher

Copper Alloy Pitcher South Italian Made about 1100-1150 Accession # 64.101.1406 The griffins and lions decorating this pitcher attest to the popularity of Islamic designs on luxury goods made during the 1100s in southern Italy, where Byzantine, Muslim, and Western styles of art comfortably coexisted under the patronage of Norman kings. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Title: Terracotta oinochoe (jug) Medium; Technique: Terracotta; red-figure Culture: Greek, Attic Period: Classical Date: ca. 450 B.C. Artist or Maker: Attributed to the Painter of Louvre CA 1694 Dimensions: H. 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm) Classification: Vases Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1906 Accession Number: 06.1101 Description: Two satyrs The significant element in the interchange between the two satyrs is the skyphos (deep drinking cup) held by one of them. It may be full of wine. It may also be empty and about to be used as a chamber pot. Although Greek vases were designed to fulfill a specific purpose, they lent themselves to any number of other uses. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/greek_...

Title: Terracotta spouted jug Medium; Technique: Terracotta Culture: Cycladic or Cretan Period: Early Bronze III–Middle Bronze I Date: ca. 2700–2300 B.C. Dimensions: H. 10 inches (25.3 cm) Classification: Vases Credit Line: Gift of Andrés A. Mata, in memory of Elodia Mata, 2004 Accession Number: 2004.342.2 Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/greek_...

Pitcher Staffordshire, England, 1700-1710 Earthenware with slip decoration Accession # 24.225 The whimsical birds and flowers on this pitcher are typical of the designs that influenced American slipware in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Amphora with Bacchic Scenes Creator: Roman (Silversmith) Period: 2nd-3rd century Medium: silver, traces of gilt (Gold, Silver & Jewelry) Accession Number: 57.708 Measurements: H: 6 1/4 x W: 4 5/16 x Diam: 3 11/16 in. (15.9 x 10.9 x 9.3 cm) Geography: Entrains-Sur-Nohain, France (Place of Discovery) This amphora has lost one of its handles. The scenes on the amphora include Bacchus and his consort, Ariadne, with their followers among temples, hills, and trees. A later inscription appears on the neck, where a missing handle was originally attached. The inscription reads, A V.S.D./MER (votum solvit deo mercurio), "dedication to Mercury." Text from: art.thewalters.org/detail/8826/amphora-with-bacchic-scenes/

Pitcher with a Lion Roman, made in Campania, AD 1-79 Bronze Oinochoe Inventory # 72.AC.146 Text from the Getty Villa museum label.

Pitcher with Incised Decoration Etruscan, 640-620 BC Terracotta Bucchero olpe Etruscan decorative motifs were often influenced by luxur goods imported from around the Mediterranean region. Animal friezes like those incised on this pitcher also appear on Near Eastern gold and silver vessels. The shape and the scale pattern on the shoulder were derived from Corinthian pottery, which may have also inspired the popular motif of the dog attacking the boar. Text from the Getty Villa museum label.

Pitcher (trefoil oinochoe) 6th century B.C. Dimensions: H (without handle) x W (max.):11.5 x 11 cm (4 1/2 x 4 5/16 in.) Material: Ceramic Classification: Vessels Accession Number: 1971.207 Text from: www.mfa.org/collections/object/pitcher-trefoil-oinochoe--...