1955.177: Trefoil Oinochoe (wine pitcher): Charioteer

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1955.177

People

Briachos Class

Title

Trefoil Oinochoe (wine pitcher): Charioteer

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

c. 500 BCE

Places

Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Attica

Period

Archaic period

Culture

Greek

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/291109

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Terracotta

Technique

Black-figure

Dimensions

actual: 19.69 x 7.94 cm (7 3/4 x 3 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Elie Borowski. The Leon and Harriet Pomerance Foundation, Great Neck, NY, (by 1955) gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1955.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of The Leon and Harriet Pomerance Foundation, Inc.

Accession Year

1955

Object Number

1955.177

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Black figure oinochoe. The figural zone depicts a charioteer driving a quadriga (four-horse chariot).

Publication History

• J. D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford University Press (UK) (Oxford, 1956), 697.6
• M. Del Chiaro, Classical Vases in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, American Journal of Archaeology (1964), 68.2, p. 109, pl. 36:6
• J. D. Beazley, Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1971), 186

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