1972.43: Lekythos (oil flask): Woman and Maid
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1972.43
- People
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The Achilles Painter, Greek (active c. 450-440 BCE)
- Title
- Lekythos (oil flask): Woman and Maid
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- c. 450 BCE-440 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Athens (Attica)
- Period
- Classical period, High
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/287006
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- White ground
- Dimensions
- 34 x 10.2 cm (13 3/8 x 4 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
-
Frederick M. Watkins; Bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1972.
In addition, a handwritten note in the 1973 catalogue written by David Mitten quotes a March 5, 1973 letter from Dietrich von Bothmer: "On loan to MFA in 1912. Sold by the widow of Richard Norton to Morley."
[Andreya Mihaloew 4/28/2008]
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Beazley Archive Database #214007
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Frederick M. Watkins
- Accession Year
- 1972
- Object Number
- 1972.43
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Publication History
- The Frederick M. Watkins Collection, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1973)
- 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. 12, no. 24.
Exhibition History
- The Frederick M. Watkins Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/31/1973 - 03/14/1973
- Dialogue with Antiquity: The Curatorial Achievement of George M.A. Hanfmann, Fogg Art Museum, 05/07/1982 - 06/26/1982
Verification Level
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