Harvard Art Museums > 24.1908: Toy Chous (Juglet): Child Training a Dog 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"Toy Chous (Juglet): Child Training a Dog , 24.1908,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 19, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/287257. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 24.1908 Title Toy Chous (Juglet): Child Training a Dog Classification Vessels Work Type vessel Date c. 420 BCE Places Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Attica Period Classical period, High Culture Greek Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/287257 Physical Descriptions Medium Terracotta Technique Black-figure Dimensions 5.8 × 5.5 cm (2 5/16 × 2 3/16 in.) State, Edition, Standard Reference Number Standard Reference Number Beazley Archive Database #13419 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Loan from Estate of Donald Upham and Mrs. R. U. Hunter Object Number 24.1908 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 Small trefoil-mouthed chous (juglet); decoration in Six's Technique (added paint and yellowish diluted gloss): child training a dog. Handle missing. Commentary This little jug or pitcher depicts a boy feeding, teasing, or training a dog with food. This miniature pitcher shape is called a “chous” in ancient Greek. Made in Athens, this vessel type was popular in the late 5th century BCE. These little pitchers are connected to a spring festival in Athens called the Anthesteria, a festival of Dionysos that was especially connected to the new wine of the year and the arrival of spring. Some scholars have suggested that these little pitchers were used in festival ritual for the first taste of wine for three-year old children. They are often decorated, appropriately, with child-related themes such as this. The little dog is a type known in antiquity as a Melitan (Maltese) dog. It is commonly depicted as a pet in ancient Greek art (see the grave stele of Melisto, 1961.86, for another depiction of a child teasing a Melitan dog in the collection). Publication History George M. A. Hanfmann, Greek Art and Life, An Exhibition Catalogue, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1950), no. 142. Jenifer Neils and John Oakley, Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, 2003), pp. 146, 285, cat. 95 Louise Calder, Cruelty and Sentimentality: Greek Attitudes to Animals, 600-300 BC, Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. (Oxford, 2011) 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 Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, 08/23/2003 - 12/14/2003; Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, New York, 01/20/2004 - 04/15/2004; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, 05/21/2004 - 08/01/2004; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 09/14/2004 - 12/16/2004 A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/28/2023 - 05/07/2023 Related Works 1960.356 Miniature Oinochoe (wine pitcher): Child and Wagon Vessels Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be 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
