- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1995.18.59.A-C
- Title
- Red-figure Cup Fragment: Foot to Left
- Classification
- Fragments
- Work Type
- sherd
- Date
- c. 500-490 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Athens (Attica)
- Period
- Classical period, Early
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/288091
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- Red-figure
- Dimensions
- 8 cm (3 1/8 in.)
- Provenance
- Dr. J. Robert Guy, Oxford England (?-1994) sold; to Peter Sharrar, New York (1994-1995), sold: to Harvard University Art Museums.
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- Standard Reference Number
- Beazley Archive Database #19985
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Jonathan H. Kagan, Mr. and Mrs. Evangelos Karvounis, Ian M. Watson McLaughlin, Nicholas S. Zoullas and the Florence Gould Foundation, and the Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing, Director's Discretionary and Marian H. Phinney Funds
- Accession Year
- 1995
- Object Number
- 1995.18.59.A-C
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Fragment A: Interior: foot of one to left; on right, red tassel ends (of flute case?). Single line border; relief contours, preserved to rim. Thickness at rim 0.2 cm, thickness at center of tondo border 0.32 cm.
Fragment B (larger handle, does not belong to fragment A): greatest dimension 8.9 cm, diameter at break farthest from root of handle 1.3 cm, diameter at mid-point of handle 1.4 cm.
Fragment C (smaller handle, does not belong to fragment A): greatest dimension 6.3 cm, diameter at mid-point of handle 1.2 cm.
- Publication History
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Aaron J. Paul, "Fragments of Antiquity: Drawing Upon Greek Vases", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin (Spring 1997), vol. V, no. 2, pp. 7-87, fig. 133
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