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Salt and pepper shakers; ca. 1960 AD; CC39

From:UC Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities

Name/TitleSalt and pepper shakers

About this objectThis set of salt and pepper shakers was used by Miss Marion Steven alongside the Logie Collection for teaching white-ground and Rhodian ware to her university students. Miss Steven founded the Logie Collection in 1957 and frequently used resources and photographs that she had obtained overseas for her teaching.

The salt shaker depicts a warrior and the pepper shaker depicts two animals, possibly antelopes, grazing. The decoration is in black-figure on a white-ground surface with patterning reminiscent of the Greek Orientalising period around the 8th Century BC.

Greek Orientalising decoration was designed for certain shapes and curves. The shakers demonstrate how this decoration did not work so well on smaller surfaces.

Date Madeca. 1960 AD

Medium and MaterialsCeramic; Plastic

Style and IconographyCorinthian

Style and IconographyOrientalising

TechniqueBlack-figure vase painting

Subject and Association KeywordsViolence in art

Subject and Association KeywordsAnimals in art

Subject and Association KeywordsArt reproductions

Named CollectionThe James Logie Memorial Collection, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Credit LineFrom the collection of Miss Marion K. Steven

Object TypeContainers

Object numberCC39