2012.1.95: Impasto Kyathos (Ladle)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2012.1.95

Title

Impasto Kyathos (Ladle)

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

8th-7th Century BCE

Places

Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Etruria

Period

Iron Age

Culture

Villanovan

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/56998

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Terracotta

Technique

Wheel-made

Dimensions

7 x 6.3 cm (2 3/4 x 2 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Bernheimer's Antique Arts, Cambridge, MA] (by 1965), sold; to the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection, Department of the Classics, Harvard University 1965-2012), transfer; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2012.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection, Department of the Classics, Harvard University

Accession Year

2012

Object Number

2012.1.95

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

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Descriptions

Description

Intact impasto kyathos (ladle). The single handle is reinforced by a horizontal bar at rim level. The body is biconical, with a series of knobs around the shoulder, and narrows to the foot.

Publication History

• John Crawford, Sidney Goldstein, George M. A. Hanfmann, John Kroll, Judith Lerner, Miranda Marvin, Charlotte Moore, and Duane Roller, Objects of Ancient Daily Life. A Catalogue of the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Belonging to the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, ed. Jane Waldbaum, Department of the Classics (unpublished manuscript, 1970), P1, p. 53 [M. C. Marvin]

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