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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.354
Title
Oinochoe (wine pitcher): Woman Playing a Lyre
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
490-480 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Attica
Period
Classical period, Early
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/287957

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Technique
Red-figure
Dimensions
26.5 x 10.5 cm (10 7/16 x 4 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in Greek, "He is beautiful; She is beautiful."

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Lord Aldenham, England (pre 1903); sold [through Sotheby's London 1937(?)]; to David Moore Robinson, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1960.

Published in the Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition of Ancient Greek Art (London 1903), p. 107 no. 43, and see J.D. Beazley in Journal of Hellenic Studies 59 (1939) 153.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Beazley Archive Database #13454

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of David M. Robinson
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.354
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • David Moore Robinson, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum U.S.A.: volume 3, The Robinson Collection, Baltimore, MD, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1938), p. 20
  • Gisela M.A. Richter, Attic Red-Figured Vases, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1958), p. 24-29
  • Fogg Art Museum, The David Moore Robinson Bequest of Classical Art and Antiquities, A Special Exhibition, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1961), p. 19, no. 116
  • Joseph Veach Noble, The Techniques of Painted Attic Pottery, Watson-Guptill Publications (New York, NY, 1965), p. 84
  • [Reproduction only], Persephone, Classical Club of Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, Summer 1997 - Fall 1997)., p. 46.
  • Tony Sigel, Conservation at 33 1/3 RPM: The Treatment of an Attic Trefoil Oinochoe, Objects Specialty Group Postprints, ed. Suzanne Davis, Kari Dodson, and Emily Hamilton, American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works (https://resources.culturalheritage.org/osg-postprints/v21/sigel/, 2014), 21, Pages 43-80, Fig 1a-b, Page 44; Fig 2, Page 45; Fig 3, Page 45; Fig 5a, Page 48; Fig 6, Page 49; Fig 7, Page 50; Fig 8, Page 50; Fig 9, Page 51; Fig 16, Page 57; Fig 17, Page 57; Fig 21, Page 60; Fig 22a-d, Page 61; Fig 23, Page 62; Fig 24, Page 62; Fig 30, Page 67; Fig 31, Page 67; Fig 33a-c, Page 69; Fig 35, Page 70; Fig 36, Page 71; Fig 37, Page 72; Fig 39a-c, Page 75; Fig 40, Page 76; Fig 41, Page 76; Fig 42, Page 77; Fig 43a-b, Page 78

Exhibition History

  • The David Moore Robinson Bequest of Classical Art and Antiquities: A Special Exhibition, Fogg Art Museum, 05/01/1961 - 09/20/1961
  • [teaching exhibition], University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque
  • HAA132e The Ideal of the Everyday in Greek Art (S427) Spring 2012, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2012 - 05/12/2012
  • 32Q: 3400 Greek, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 10/03/2023

Subjects and Contexts

  • Google Art Project

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