Harvard Art Museums > 1925.30.48: Red-figure Bell Krater: Seated Woman with a Flowering Branch Vessels Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Red-figure Bell Krater: Seated Woman with a Flowering Branch , 1925.30.48,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 23, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/291678. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. 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 The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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) Verification Level This record was created from historic documentation and may not have been reviewed by a curator; it may be inaccurate or incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
