Archaic I

Cake baker and dog

Cake baker and dog terracotta representations of everyday scenes were common in early and medium-cyprical times.They were produced, albeit less frequently, even in Cyprical-Archaischer times.The Viennese copy is unique with regard to the spontaneity of the scene.It can only be compared to the "scenic compositions" of early and medium-cypric times.Such scenes of everyday life can still be observed in Cyprus today, for example when women prepare cakes for festive occasions. To see a group with an everyday scene in which a person and an animal are involved.Both are attached to a moon -shaped, flat plate.The human figure is female, with beads as a breasts.It sits on a low stool.Long nose, balls as ears, long hair curls that fall on their shoulders on both sides of the neck.Thick turban around her head.In front of her there is a pan on a three -legged table;It is attached at the end of the plate.The pan is rounded, shallows and has four small, vertical handles along its edge.There is a round cake (Koullouri) made of sound separately.The right arm of the human figure is stretched forward and it touches the edge of the pan with the right hand.The left arm is down and slightly stretched back;The hand reaches for a flat, round basket that stands on the floor and contains four other cakes that are prepared for baking.Behind the human figure an animal (a dog?) With short legs and long cock.The animal approaches and touches the cake in the basket with its snout.Traces of black color on hair, arms and legs of the human figure.Traces of black on the dog (?). A.Bernhard-Walcher and others, the Cypricer Antique Collection in the KHM.Collection catalogs of the KHM Vol. 2, Vienna 1999 (V. Karageghis) H. 8,5 cm, L. 14,2 cm