The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 23, 2024
Two-Spouted Strainer Askos (Flask)
300–200 BCE
Diameter of mouth: 14.5 cm (5 11/16 in.); Overall: 37 x 31 cm (14 9/16 x 12 3/16 in.)
Location: 102D Pre-Roman
Did You Know?
Each spout has a built-in strainer—one near the top, the other near the bottom.Description
Although now referred to by the Greek term askos, because of its resemblance to the animal skins used to hold wine in ancient Greece, this ceramic shape developed in the South Italian region of Daunia (north of Apulia, on the Adriatic coast). This example is unusual for its three openings—one covered by a lid, the others spouted with built-in strainers. Its profusely painted decoration, mostly geometric and vegetal patterns applied in black with added red and white, is arranged in bands that follow the contours of the vessel.- Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. BAPD 1001478 www.beazley.ox.ac.ukBoulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. p. 30, Plate 48, I www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
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