Red-Figure Oinochoe (Wine Jug): Eros and Woman (c. 340–320 BCE): Art, History and Details

Red-Figure Oinochoe (Wine Jug): Eros and Woman (c. 340–320 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Cleveland Group.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This wine jug provides the name for the Cleveland Group, comprising more than 20 similar vases decorated in the "Ornate" style of Apulian red-figure pottery. Close in style to the better known Darius Painter and the Patera and Ganymede Painters, many Cleveland Group vases feature very effeminate Eros figures like this one, here holding two phialai (libation bowls) and facing a woman before a harp.

Object facts

• Title: Red-Figure Oinochoe (Wine Jug): Eros and Woman
• Date: c. 340–320 BCE
• Creator attribution: Cleveland Group
• Culture: South Italian, Apulian
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: ceramic
• Dimensions: Overall: 27.9 x 12.1 cm (11 x 4 3/4 in.)
• Collection: GR - South Italy
• Department: Greek and Roman Art
• Accession number: 1928.601

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive.
• Trendall, A. D., and Alexander Cambitoglou. The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978.
• Dobbins, John. J. 1985. "A Roman Funerary Relief of a Potter and His Wife," Arts in Virginia, vol. 25.2-3. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

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