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Mycenaean Vase Decorated With An Octopus
A Mycenaean vase or krater depicting a stylized octopus (1400-1300 BCE). Provenance: Ialysos, Rhodes. (British Museum).
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Mycenaean Vase Decorated With Bulls & Birds
A Mycenaean vase (1300-1200 BCE) in the pictorial style depicting stylized bulls and birds. From a tomb in Enkomi, Cyprus. (British Museum, London)
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Maebyeong Celadon Vase, Goryeo Dynasty
A maebyeong celadon vase with lotus decoration. 12th century CE, Goryeo Dynasty, Korea. (National Museum of Korea, Seoul, South Korea)
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Greek Vase Painting of an Artist at Work
Red-figure vase depicting an artist painting a statue of Hercules, identified by his club and lion-skin cape. Greek and Roman statues were frequently painted in Antiquity, to impart a more impressive and life-like...
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The Colchester Vase
The "Colchester Vase" is a cremation vessel decorated with a continuous frieze depicting scenes relating to arena spectacles, including the combat between two gladiators named Memnon and Valentinus. Memnon is a well-armoured...
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Vase Painting of Hercules & Hippolyte
Fragment of an Apulian vase painting depicting Hercules with the Amazonian queen Hippolyte. Terracotta volute-krater attributed to the Baltimore Painter. c. 330–310 BCE. 19.4 cm (7.5 in). (Metropolitan Museum...
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Jurchen Jin Dynasty Vase
A green glazed vase with floral design, Jurchen Jin dynasty, 1115-1234 CE. (British Museum, London)
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Vase Painting of a Man with his Cheetah
A red-figure vase painting depicting a bearded man with his pet cheetah. The man holds a walking stick in one hand, and with the other he leads the cheetah by a red leash connected to its collar. Attributed...
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Wine Vase with Berenice II
Berenice II (c. 266 - 221 BCE) is represented as Agathe Tyche, the goddess of Good Fortune, on a type of faience wine vase called oinochoe (Alexandria, ca. 245-200 BCE, Getty inv. 96.AI.58).
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Nazca Vase with Warrior & Trophy Heads
The vase is bell-shaped and depicts hunter-warrior figures with trophy heads. This is a typical "late" Nazca vessel with a proliferous design. The subject is depicted in profile and there is a use of complex...