On a vessel, a woman in robes holds out a round flat object.
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A vessel with a flat base and narrow body which connects to a tall fluted stem. It is painted in red and black. A woman stands with her body tilted to the left, while her right arm holds out a flat disc. Her head turns to look at the disc. She wears long draping robes and a piece of fabric wrapped around her hair. There is a box at her feet. She stands on a platform made of a geometric pattern.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1959.193
People
Manner of Douris, Greek (active 500-460 BCE)
Title
Lekythos (oil flask): Woman holding an alabastron
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
480 BCE-470 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Attica
Period
Classical period, Early
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/291221

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Technique
Red-figure
Dimensions
H. 30 cm (11 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jacob Hirsch, Sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot, June 17-19, 1912. To Frederick M. Watkins, 1941, gift; toThe Fogg Art Museum, 1959.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Beazley Archive Database #205369

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Frederick M. Watkins
Accession Year
1959
Object Number
1959.193
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
A woman dressed in chiton, himation and spotted sakkos stands with her feet to the left, her back to the viewer, her head to the right. She holds an alabastron in her right hand. A chest is on the ground behind the woman.

Publication History

  • J. D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1963), p. 451, no. 34.
  • Diana M. Buitron, Attic Vase Painting in New England Collections, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), p. 108, no. 58.
  • The Frederick M. Watkins Collection, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1973), p. 63, no. 24.
  • 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. 22.
  • Rosalba Panvini and Filippo Giudice, Ta Attika: Attic Figured Vases From Gela, L'Erma di Bretschneider (Rome, 2003), p. 321 (fig. G72), p. a83
  • [Reproduction only], Persephone, Puritan Press (Hollis, NH, Winter 2007).

Exhibition History

  • Attic Vase Painting in New England Collections, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/01/1972 - 04/05/1972
  • 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
  • [Teaching Exhibition], Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, 08/01/1995 - 01/01/1997
  • Veder Greco a Gela, Palazzo Pignatelli, Gela, 01/15/2004 - 03/16/2004
  • Tangible Things, The Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Cambridge, 01/24/2011 - 05/29/2011
  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/07/2016 - 05/08/2016

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