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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1925.30.33
People
Attributed to The Harrow Painter
Title
Column Krater (mixing bowl for wine and water): Youth Playing a Lyre
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
c. 490-470 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Attica
Period
Archaic period, Late, to Early Classical
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/291116

Location

Location
Level 3, Room 3400, Ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Art, Ancient Greece in Black and Orange
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta; pale reddish clay, black paint fired reddish-brown
Technique
Red-figure
Dimensions
body: 30.8 x 25.1 cm (12 1/8 x 9 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Excavated from Tomb V, Poggio Sommavilla, Italy by Fausto Benedetti, Italy (1896-1897), sold; to Joseph Clark Hoppin, Boston (1897-1925), bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1925.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Beazley Archive Database #202889

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Joseph C. Hoppin
Accession Year
1925
Object Number
1925.30.33
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Side A: In the center a youth wrapped in a mantle, seated to right on a square object holding in his left a lyre the strings of which are now missing but were originallly applied in white as shown by a few traces. Facing him a bearded man to left entirely wrapped in his mantle and leaning on a staff. At the left a second youth clad in a cloak which leaves his right arm and shoulder bare, holding a staff in his right. In the field a pair of halteres, a sponge and a strigil. Side B: Bearded man with staff and youth facing each other, both entirely wrapped in their cloaks. In the field a sponge. Hair outlines reserved in all figures. On outer edge of rim ivy leaf band. On neck, A, lotus bud chain with points downwards. Pictures framed by a tongue pattern above, ivy leaves at sides. On base, rays. Execution fair, that of A superior to that of B. Rim broken and repaired.

Publication History

  • Joseph Clark Hoppin and Albert Gallatin, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, U.S.A.: volume 1, Hoppin and Gallatin Collections, Libraire Ancienne Edouard Champion (Paris, 1926)
  • J. D. Beazley, [Review of Hoppin C.V.A.], The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (London, England, 1927), 47

Exhibition History

  • HAA132e The Ideal of the Everyday in Greek Art (S427) Spring 2012, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2012 - 05/12/2012
  • 32Q: 3400 Greek, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/03/2023 - 01/01/2050

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