The Amphora
Unknown, ca. 550–540 BCE
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 15% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyA terracotta neck-amphora — the storage jar in which wine was kept and carried, the cellar’s own architecture. A faithful reproduction of a public-domain work in The Metropolitan Museum (CC0). Two handles at the neck, a body built to stand in sand and keep. Patience has a shape, and this is it.
- Maker
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 550–540 BCE
- Medium of the original
- Painting
- Original held by
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Credit
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00221
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 29% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 20% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 29% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 29% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 20% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 29% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 29% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 20% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 20% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 29% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,960 x 3,160 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 15, lights 233 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 11.95
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