Red-figure vase fragment with a woman's head
Medium:Earthenware with slip-painted decoration
Geography: Attica, Greece
Date: about 430-420 BC
Period: Greek Classical period
Object number: 2001.80.17.2
Credit Line: From the Diniacopoulos Collection, Montreal. Gift of the ROM Foundation.
DescriptionThe fragment preserves the veiled head of a woman in profile left. Her veil is embellished with 'x' marks, suggesting stars. She is also wearing a simple pendant earring. Her veiled head suggests she may be a bride at her wedding. The face was rendered with great sensitivity by the vase painter - recalling the idealized facial features of women on the Parthenon frieze and late 5th century Attic grave stele.
