1925.30.45: Squat Lekythos (oil flask): Figure in Chiton and Mantle
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1925.30.45
- Title
- Squat Lekythos (oil flask): Figure in Chiton and Mantle
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- c. 420-390 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Attica
- Period
- Classical period, High
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/292182
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta, steely black glaze
- Technique
- Red-figure
- Dimensions
- 6.3 cm (2 1/2 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Joseph Clark Hoppin, purchased in Athens, 1898; bequeathed to Fogg Art Museum, 1925.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Beazley Archive Database #13460
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Joseph C. Hoppin
- Accession Year
- 1925
- Object Number
- 1925.30.45
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Hovering winged? figure in chiton and mantle. Faint lines on the chiton, hair outline reserved. Hasty technique. Intact.
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)
- George M. A. Hanfmann, Greek Art and Life, An Exhibition Catalogue, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1950), no. 141.
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
Verification Level
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