Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup with high handles)

A black-glazed terracotta kantharos, a deep drinking cup with tall looping handles and a footed stem. On the body, a pale female head in profile-to-front view, crowned and framed by swirling volutes, is set between bands of red and black ornament.

Look closer: Small palmette-like ornaments and dotted rosettes sit on the black field beside the head.

Artist

Painter of Bari 5981

Date

ca. 325–300 BCE

Medium

Terracotta

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3831 × 4000 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1906