Skyphos Gnathia

Skyphos Gnathia style. Apulia. Magna Grecia. Southern Italy, second half of S. IV-S. III B.C.
Pottery worked on a potter's wheel. Oxidizing firing, overpainted, glazed.
In excellent state of preservation. It has been subjected to a process of cleaning and restoration.
Measurements: 27 x 27 x 14 cm.
Vessel made in the workshops of Gnathia with a convex body that narrows towards the base. It consists of a ring foot, with horizontal handles of circular section very close to the edge of the vessel and slightly directed upwards and slightly exvasado lip. It has a black glazed surface, although there are orange areas, probably due to a problem during firing. It is decorated in red, white and yellow colors, presenting geometric motifs in bands in the upper part and in the body vegetal motifs, mainly ivy branches and hanging vine elements. The ivy and the vine are the most typical decoration of the "Gnathia" overpainted ceramics. The black glaze that covers the vase leaves a reserve band, orange in color, at the base. The National Archaeological Museum of Madrid houses a skyphos of similar typology.
The skyphos is a deep wine cup, with two handles and a low and wide base, or without a base. The handles can be small and horizontal, projecting from the rim (in Corinthian and Athenian forms), or they can be loop-shaped, placed on the rim or protruding from the base.