Vessel
Double-spout vase painted in polychrome with two couchant winged figures. The heads wear an elaborate coiled headdress tipped with plant forms that spring from other parts of the body and from the serpent staff held in left hand of figure. Painted face with long projecting tongue. Wings of figures are decorated with human heads and terminate in feathers.
- Date
- 1st century BCE - 6th century CE
- In our collection
- since October the 4th, 2014 up to now
- Dimensions
- 5 1/2 x 5 3/8 in. (14 x 13.7 cm)
- Location
- Not on View
- Medium
- Clay, pigments
- Price
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- Composition
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iron 65% cadmium 31% atium 4%