Mended from many fragments with the missing pieces restored in plaster and painted. Upper half of body missing to either side of handle A/B. Narrow reserved band on inside at rim; another 0.04 below rim. Glaze pitted in many places; cracked here and there. H. 0.278; rest. diam. at rim 0.30. LIMC VII, 1994, p. 84, cat. no. 10, pl. 58, s.v. Orpheus.

A, Orpheus and two Thracians (illustrated). Orpheus (most of head missing) sits to right on a rock, holding his lyre on his lap, a cloak around his hips and legs. Behind him is a tree (trunk), then a Thracian standing to right, holding a spear (part of his hands and both feet are missing). He wears a leather cap and a Thracian cloak. In front of Orpheus stands a similar Thracian (lower part of cloak, feet) with two spears. B, woman standing to left between two youths (head, shoulder of left, face of right missing). Each wears a himation. The right youth leans on a stick. On rim, laurel wreath to right with vine and berries. At each handle root, egg pattern. Below the figures, stopped-maeander pattern. Preliminary sketch. Dilute glaze: muscles of Thracian and Orpheus; part of decoration on left Thracian's cloak; himatia on B. White: vine and berries.

For Orpheus among the Thracians, see LIMC VII, 1994, pp. 84--87, s.v. Orpheus (M.-X. Garezou).

The Painter of the Louvre Centauromachy (ARV2 1091, 56).