Sphinx moving right
Plate done with slightly pinky clay. Decoration painted in black color now slightly changed into a brown-red tonality. The lower half is decorated with an ornament, like cloves, painted long the rays of a half circle The upper half: a sphinx moving towards right; geometrical patterns filling the empty space between the main figure and the frame.
Ionic Rhodian black-figure plate
About 600-575 BC
From Kamiros
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Sphinx moving right
Plate done with slightly pinky clay. Decoration painted in black color now slightly changed into a brown-red tonality. The lower half is decorated with an ornament, like cloves, painted long the rays of a half circle The upper half: a sphinx moving towards right; geometrical patterns filling the empty space between the main figure and the frame.
Ionic Rhodian black-figure plate
About 600-575 BC
From Kamiros
Paris, Musée du Louvre