Trefoil Oinochoe
Description
Buff colored clay, now darkened. Trefoil lip. Handle scored vertically down the middle. Very round body decorated in black and red. Decoration is bands of concentric circles alternating with stripes on upper half of vessel; lower vessel decorated with red and black stripes. Some paint drips from the circles. Body shape slightly irregular.
Dimensions
36.5 x 13.8 cm (14 3/8 x 5 7/16 in.)
Provenance
Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
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