1972.44: Lekythos (oil flask): Dionysos Holding a Kantharos
VesselsA vessel with a flat base and narrow body which connects to a tall fluted stem. It is painted in red and black. A man in long draping robes stands slightly turned to the right. He holds a cup with two large handles in his left hand while his right hand holds a tall staff which seems to be made from a long stick, with 3 vines coming from the top of the staff. He wears a crown of similar vines on his head. He stands on a platform indicated by a geometric heart and dot pattern.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1972.44
- People
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Attributed to The Berlin Painter, Greek (500 BCE - 470 BCE)
- Title
- Lekythos (oil flask): Dionysos Holding a Kantharos
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- c. 480 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Athens (Attica)
- Period
- Classical period, Early
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/287350
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- Red-figure
- Dimensions
- Overall: 34 x 11.4 cm (13 3/8 x 4 1/2 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Philipp Lederer, Lugano, Switzerland. [Charles Lucien Morley, St. Moritz, Switzerland and New York (by 1942)], sold; to Frederick M. Watkins, New Haven, CT, (1942-1972), bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1972.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Beazley Archive Database #202016
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Frederick M. Watkins
- Accession Year
- 1972
- Object Number
- 1972.44
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- A bearded Dionysos stands facing right, wearing a long chiton, whose fine creases are done in diluted gloss, and mantle. He holds a staff with an ivy sprig in his left hand and a kantharos (two-handled drinking cup) drawn in silhouette in his right. He wears a wreath and stands barefoot.
Publication History
- The Frederick M. Watkins Collection, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1973)
- Caroline Houser, Dionysos and His Circle: Ancient Through Modern, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1979), no. 9.
- 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. 20.
- [Reproduction Only], Persephone, (Spring 2005)., p. 5
- Michael Padgett, ed., The Berlin Painter and His World: Athenian vase-painting int he early fifth century B.C., exh. cat., Yale University Press (U.S.) and Princeton University Art Museum (New Haven, 2017), pp. 306-307, no. 52
Exhibition History
- The Frederick M. Watkins Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/31/1973 - 03/14/1973
- Dionysos and His Circle: Ancient through Modern, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/10/1979 - 02/10/1980
- Dialogue with Antiquity: The Curatorial Achievement of George M.A. Hanfmann, Fogg Art Museum, 05/07/1982 - 06/26/1982
- Fragments of Antiquity: Drawing Upon Greek Vases, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/15/1997 - 12/28/1997
- The Berlin Painter and his World: Athenian Vase-Painting in the Early Fifth Century, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, 03/04/2017 - 06/11/2017; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, 07/07/2017 - 10/01/2017
Verification Level
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