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Black-Figure Olpe (Wine Jug): Rooster

Black-Figure Olpe (Wine Jug): Rooster

c. 575 BCE
ceramic
Overall: 35.5 cm (14 in.)
Dudley P. Allen Fund 1924.355
Location: 102B Greek

Did You Know?

Roosters appear frequently on vases—alone, in cock fights, and as love gifts.

Description

Although this wine jug, simply decorated with a rooster and two lotus blossoms, looks much like Athenian vases, it was made in Corinth. The paler buff color of the Corinthian clay can be seen on the handle and in some areas of loss, but the background of the decorated area has been covered with a red slip imitating the reddish, iron-rich Attic (or Athenian) clay. On the back of the vase, two reserved (red) crescent shapes may represent eyes, like those painted in much more detail on many drinking cups of this period.
  • 1924
    Through Harold Woodbury Parsons, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1924-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. BAPD 1001466 www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
    Amyx, Darrell A. Corinthian Vase-Painting of the Archaic Period. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. p. 491
    "A note on Greek Design: Recent Accessions of Pottery." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 11, no. 10. (December 1924): 198-199 Mentioned: p. 198; Reproduced: p. 200
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925. Reproduced: p. 62 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928. Reproduced: p. 75 archive.org
    Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. p. 4, Plate 4,I-3 www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
    Grabow, Eva. Der Hahn - Haustier oder Dämon?: Studien zu griechischen Vasenbildern, Boreas Beiheft 11. Münster, 2015. Taf. 14, no. 38 (Cat. 64), pp. 41, 80 (misidentified as Attic).
  • The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).
  • {{cite web|title=Black-Figure Olpe (Wine Jug): Rooster|url=false|author=|year=c. 575 BCE|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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