Interior: Running windgod (Boreas), bearded, wearing knee-length tunic, with wings on shoulders and ankles; rosette in ring (probably filling ornament) below, all in reserved tondo. Exterior: various fillets, dentils, tongues, and pomegranates, etc.
Provenance
By 1963: with Robert E. Hecht, Jr.; purchased by MFA from Robert E. Hecht, Jr., September 23, 1964
Credit Line
Otis Norcross Fund
Greek, Archaic Period, about 570 B.C.
Place of Manufacture
Sparta, Laconia, Greece
Dimensions
11.8 cm (4 5/8 in.)
Accession Number
64.1459
Medium or Technique
Ceramic