Terracotta Thymiaterion in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2011

Terracotta thymiaterion (incense burner)

Associated with the Stuttgart Group

Period: Hellenistic

Date: ca. 325–300 B.C.

Culture: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

Medium: Terracotta

Dimensions: H. 12 in. (30.5 cm)

Classification: Vases

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1906

Accession Number: 06.1021.220

Description:

On the shaft, seated Eros. On the top, head of a woman

As with the adjacent thymiaterion in the Gnathian technique (26.60.74), the shape here is strongly articulated, and the decoration combines figural and ornamental motifs. The traditional red-figure painting appears sober indeed compared to the rococo effect of the Gnathian piece.


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