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"title": "Gnathian Ribbed Oinochoe (Wine Jug): Masks, Dancer, and Flute-Player",
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"department": "Greek and Roman Art",
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"measurements": "Overall: 46.4 cm (18 1/4 in.)",
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"description": "The ornate decoration of this grand vessel takes several forms. A mold-made male theater mask sits at the upper handle attachment, looking out over the rim. Below this, two chubby boys\u2014a dancer and pipe-player\u2014cavort on the neck, flanked by female masks. Farther down, a band of ivy leaves and berries on a red and yellow ribbon adorns the widest point of the vessel, with ribbing above and below.",
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"citation": "Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive.",
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"citation": "Mayo, Margaret Ellen. The Art of South Italy: Vases from Magna Graecia : an Exhibition. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1982.",
"page_number": "pp. 274-275, cat. 135.",
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"citation": "Wunderlich, Silvia. \"A Vase from South Italy.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 39, no. 8 (October 1952): 207-208.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 208; Reproduced: p. 209",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
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"citation": "Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971.",
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