Red-Figure Oinochoe (Wine Jug): Eros and Woman
Cleveland Group
c. 340–320 BCE
Medium
ceramic
Dimensions
27.9 × 12.1 cm
Classification
Ceramic
Department
Greek and Roman Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Accession Number
1928.601
Tags
gender unknown
About this artwork
This wine jug provides the name for the Cleveland Group, comprising more than 20 similar vases decorated in the "Ornate" style of Apulian red-figure pottery. Close in style to the better known Darius Painter and the Patera and Ganymede Painters, many Cleveland Group vases feature very effeminate Eros figures like this one, here holding two phialai (libation bowls) and facing a woman before a harp.