Vase Catalog Number: Malibu 85.AE.88

Decoration:

The mouth is black with white dot rosettes. The neck is offset. A row of polychrome tongues continues around the shoulder above a red and black pattern of scales. Underneath are two processions of animals and fantastic creatures in continuous registers. In the upper register, running clockwise from the handle are a boar, a lion, a boar, a lion, a griffin, a waterbird, a griffin, a lion, a bull, a lion, an ibex, and a lion. Clockwise from the handle in the lower register are an ibex, a lion, a ram, a lion, an ibex, a lion, a bull, and a lion. There are black dot-rosettes in the field.

Collection History:

European art market.

Sources Used:

Offprint from The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, vol. 14 (1986), Acquistions 1985, p. 187, no. 23.

(Deirdre Beyer-Honça)