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  Worldvisitguide > Places > Metropolitan Museum... > Greek Antiquities > Greek Art of the Fifth... > Terracotta calpis
Terracotta calpis
Attributed to : Peintre Shuvalov
Model : Eros

Date : approx. between 480 and 420 B.C.

Material : Terra cotta
Acquisition : Gift (1978)
Figures rouges
Woman and Eros
Item 15 on 81
Greek Antiquities
Container (Calpis)

Vitrine : V01

Area related
Attique (Greece)


Description   

The woman's rock indicates that the scene takes place outdoors. She is festively dresses and holds out a casket. Eros approaches with a mirror in his left hand and a branch in his right. Is such a representation, Eros may be almost interchangeable with a mortal man.
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Greek Art of the Fifth and Early Fourth Centuries B.C.
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Figures rouges
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