1925.30.42.A-B: Stamnos (mixing vessel) with Cover: Dionysos, Maenads, and Satyr

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1925.30.42.A-B

People

The Christie Painter, Greek (active 440 - 430 BCE)

Title

Stamnos (mixing vessel) with Cover: Dionysos, Maenads, and Satyr

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

c. 440 BCE

Places

Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Attica

Period

Classical period, High

Culture

Greek

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/292316

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Terracotta; reddish clay with fine lustrous black glaze

Technique

Red-figure

Dimensions

H. (without cover) 39.2 x W. (body) 32.2 cm (15 7/16 x 12 11/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Sig. Pascale, (by 1897) sale; to Joseph Clark Hoppin, Pomfret, CT (1897-1925), 1897, bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1925.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

Beazley Archive Database #213607

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1925

Object Number

1925.30.42.A-B

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Red-figure stamnos with lid.

Side A: a thiasos. A bearded Dionysos processes to the right, wearing a long chiton, himation, and ivy wreath. In his lowered right hand is a kantharos and in his left is a vertical thyrsos. The god turns back, looking at the maenad behind him. Wearing a peplos, she holds a lighted torch in her left hand and an oinochoe in her right. To the right of Dionysos is a satyr followed by a second maenad, both wearing wreaths. Nude and beardless, the satyr plays the double-pipes. The maenad wears a flowing peplos and her hair is loose around her shoulders. She looks back towards the procession and a kithara hangs from her wrist.

Side B: satyr and maenads. Nude and bearded, a satyr runs to the right, chasing a maenad. Below the satyr is a drinking horn. The maenad, wearing a belted peplos, flees to the right holding a horizontal thrysos in her right hand. At the far left, a second maenad flees the scene. She wears an unbelted peplos and carries a thyrsos. Both maenads wear a fillet and wreath, rendered in added white.

Figures stand on a groundline consisting of maeanders and cross-squares. Added white is used throughout for details including the satyr's musculature, wreaths, and the tips of the thyrsoi. A pair of stacked palmettes with tendrils appear below each handle, which are also topped with an additional palmette.

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), 10, pl. 16.3-4
• George M. A. Hanfmann, Greek Art and Life, An Exhibition Catalogue, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1950), no. 128.
• J. D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1963), 1048.38
• Caroline Houser, Dionysos and His Circle: Ancient Through Modern, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1979), no. 10.
• Thomas Carpenter, Thomas Mannack, and Melanie Mendonca, ed., Beazley addenda : additional references to ABV, ARV² & Paralipomena, Oxford University Press (UK) (Oxford, 1989), 321
• M. Maass and J.M. Snyder, Stringed Instruments of Ancient Greece (New Haven, 1989), p. 158, fig. 8A
• Susan B. Matheson, Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens (The University of Wisconsin Press, 1995), pp. 122-128, pl. 111A, p. 126

Exhibition History

• Greek Art and Life: From the Collections of the Fogg Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Private Lenders, Fogg Art Museum, 03/07/1950 - 04/15/1950
• Dionysos and His Circle: Ancient through Modern, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/10/1979 - 02/10/1980

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