1925.30.48: Red-figure Bell Krater: Seated Woman with a Flowering Branch

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1925.30.48

Title

Red-figure Bell Krater: Seated Woman with a Flowering Branch

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

390-380 BCE

Places

Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Attica?

Period

Classical period, Late

Culture

Greek

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/291678

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Terracotta

Dimensions

h. 36.7 x diam. 37 cm (14 7/16 x 14 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Joseph Clark Hoppin, purchased in Rome, 1899; bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1925.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Joseph C. Hoppin

Accession Year

1925

Object Number

1925.30.48

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Side A: In the center a woman seated on a rock to right looking back. She wears a chiton, opisthosphendone, earrings, necklace, bracelets, and shoes, and rests her right hand on the rock while in her left she holds a flower branch. At the left, facing her, stands a nude youth wearing a fillet in his hair, holding his cloak over his left arm and carrying a strigil in his right. At the right another woman clad like the first but without the shoes, holding a flower in her right hand and a diadem or wreath in her left. Plants are growing on the rock, and on the rock and above the design are yellow engobes. In the field a wheel?
Side B: Three mantle figures wearing fillets, the central figure with a staff, that on the right holding a strigil.

Inside rim, two narrow reserved bands. Outside rim, lateral leaf border. Above picture on Side A ovolo border and below on each side meander and saltire squares border. At joint of handles a tongue pattern and below a palmette. Applied yellow is used for the fillets, necklaces, bracelets, earring, and flower. Hair outline reserved in all figures. Drawing on B greatly inferior to that of A.

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)

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