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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.82
Title
"Wild Goat Style" Oinochoe (Wine Pitcher): Wild Goats and Geese
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
c. 700-500 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Asia Minor
Period
Orientalizing period
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/290188

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Technique
Wheel-made
Dimensions
H. 36.2 cm (14 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Formerly Hearst Collection; purchased from Muenzen und Medaillen, Basel, Switzerland.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, David M. Robinson Fund
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.82
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Trefoil-mouthed oinochoe (wine pitcher) of light reddish-brown clay containing some mica, with white slip and dark brown painted decoration that has in places misfired to red (additional red highlights?). The decoration consists of a guilloche on the neck, five and a half water birds on the shoulder, four grazing wild goats on the belly, and a lotus and bud chain on the base; various filling ornaments appear in the two animal friezes. The handle is a modern restoration.
Commentary
A characteristic example of the East Greek "Wild Goat Style," named after the favored decorative motif.

Publication History

  • David Gordon Mitten and Amy Brauer, Dialogue with Antiquity, The Curatorial Achievement of George M. A. Hanfmann, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1982), p. 11, no. 7.

Exhibition History

  • Dialogue with Antiquity: The Curatorial Achievement of George M.A. Hanfmann, Fogg Art Museum, 05/07/1982 - 06/26/1982

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