1925.30.15: Pilgrim Flask
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1925.30.15
- Title
- Pilgrim Flask
- 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/291589
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta; pale reddish clay, black paint
- Technique
- Wheel-made
- Dimensions
- 14 x 12.5 cm (5 1/2 x 4 15/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- JCH purchased in Athens; bequest to Harvard University
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Joseph C. Hoppin
- Accession Year
- 1925
- Object Number
- 1925.30.15
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Mouth, feet, sides, and handles covered with black paint. A reserved four-spoke wheel decorates the center of each side. Its circumference consists of two concentric circles surrounded by a reserved circular zone. The outer perimeter of each circular side is enclosed by a narrow reserved zone.
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)
Verification Level
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