Sotades, Bowl foot in the shape of a frog, clay, hand-modeled, clay, Total: Height: cm; Width: cm; Depth: cm, ceramic, frog, Strict style, The squatting frog once served - probably with two conspecifics - as the foot of an Attic bowl, as remains of black varnish on a slightly curved surface on the back show. The wide mouth, the plastic-half-spherical eyes and two short blunt horns are distinctive. The potter Sotades and his workshop were known at their time in Athens and far beyond for their imaginative, sometimes humorous figurative vases.

---

Size: 4320px × 3388px
Location:
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: african, amazons, ancient, athens, attic, black, blunt, bowl, buyers, camel, ceramic, cicada, clay, clients, conspecifics, cranes, crocodile, curved, customers, depth, devouring, distinctive, egyptian, eyes, figurative, foot, frog, group, hand-modeled, horns, humorous, imaginative, loved, motives, mouth, numerous, plastic--spherical, potter, pygmy, referred, remains, riding, scattered, served, shape, short, slightly, sotades, squatting, strict, style, subjects, surface, time, unusual, varnish, vases, wide, wishes, workshop, world