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Terracotta Vase

Ancient Greek Painting and Sculpture

Terracotta Vase

Ancient Greek Painting and Sculpture
  • Date: c.200 BC
  • Style: Hellenistic
  • Genre: sculpture
  • Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), New York City, NY, US
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A fundamental feature of Greek ceramics and their offshoots is that they could be used. By contrast, this vase, with its lid fixed onto the body, serves a purely symbolic function. It belongs to a class of pieces associated with the site of Centuripe in Sicily. They are characterized by elaborate and delicate applied decoration and by refined polychromy executed after firing. The scene shows a bride surrounded by attendants. The vase was made for the tomb.

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Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1953

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