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Terracotta loutrophoros
Terracotta loutrophoros
Artist :
Anonymous
Date : near 400 B.C.
Material : Terra cotta
Acquisition : Gift of Samuel G. Ward (1875)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Greek Art of the Fifth and Early Fourth Centuries B.C.
Left
Ground Floor - Section 7
Bride and groom
Item
39 on 81
Greek Antiquities
Container (Loutrophoros)
Vitrine : V01
Area related
Attique
(
Greece
)
Description
The pronounced elongation reduced the amount of water the loutrophoros (ceremonial vase for water) could contain. This example was probably more symbolic than functional.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art :
Greek Art of the Fifth and Early Fourth Centuries B.C.
Terracotta loutrophoros
Bride and groom
Loutrophore
Figures rouges
Sabouroff Painter
near 460 B.C.
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