TITLE OF WORK: Vase with dancing female figures. Persia, Sasanian period
TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, silver gilt vase
DATE: 550
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DIMENSIONS: 18.1 height; 6 cm diameter
COMMENTS: This slender, pear-shaped vase, with a vertical rim, narrow neck, beaded collar, and flat foot, is decorated with four nude dancing female figures, each of whom turns, in a three-quarter pose, toward
TITLE OF WORK: "The source", ballet in three acts by Nuitter and Saint-Léon; music by Minkous and Léo Délibes ("La source", ballet en trois actes de Nuitter et Saint-Léon; musique de Minkous et Léo Délibes)
ARTIST: Sotades Painter (Greece, active circa 460-450 BC)
TITLE OF WORK: Male figure, perhaps Aeolus at the mouth of his cave, directing the dance of the clouds. Pottery: red-figured astragalos vase
TYPE OF WORK: Painting on red-figure astragalos vase
DATE: -460
DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
DIMENSIONS: 12 x 16.8 cm
COMMENTS: Probably used as receptacle for actual knucklebones (astragalothiki). Dance of girls, formerly identified as Breezes (Aurae), but more probably Clouds. Bearded man, probably Hephaistos as dancing mast
