Detail of a South Italian Terracotta Nestoris in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2023

Title: Terracotta nestoris (two-handled jar)

Artist: Attributed to the Painter of New York 52.11.2

Period: Late Classical

Date: ca. 360–350 BCE

Culture: Greek, South Italian, Lucanian

Medium: Terracotta; red-figure

Dimensions: H. with handles 15 in. (38.1 cm)
H. without handles 13 9/16 in. (34.5 cm)

Classification: Vases

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1952

Object Number: 52.11.2

On the body, obverse, youth extending a bird toward a woman
Reverse, two youths
On the neck, obverse and reverse, head and wings of Nike

While most shapes in South Italian vase-painting depend on Attic models, the nestoris is indigenous. It developed from the Messapian trozella (see 16.59 nearby) and was adopted in Lucania earlier than in other regions such as Apulia.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/254694