Skyphos Gnathia style

Skyphos Gnathia style. Apulia. Magna Grecia. Southern Italy, second half of the fourth century - third century BC.
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: 32 x 30 cm.
Skyphos overpainted that meets the characteristics of the vessels grouped under the style of Gnathia, with a convex body that narrows towards the base consisting of a ring foot, with horizontal handles of circular section very close to the edge of the vessel and slightly directed upward and slightly exvasado lip, rounded edge. Varnished in black color in the interior and exterior. It is decorated in red, white and yellow colors, presenting geometric motifs in bands in the upper part and in the body vegetal motifs: on one side flowers formed by red, yellow and white dots and yellow ivy branches with white leaves and, on the other, mainly ivy leaves in the form of white dots hanging from the rim. The black varnish covering the vase leaves a reserve band, orange in color, located at the galbo-foot junction. 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.