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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.56.39
People
Attributed to The Frignano Painter, Greek
Title
Campanian Skyphos with a Dancing Maenad
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
375 BCE-350 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Campania
Period
Classical period, Late
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/288089

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Technique
Wheel-made
Dimensions
16.5 × 15 cm (6 1/2 × 5 7/8 in.)
width with handles: 23.3 cm (9 3/16 in.)
width of base: 9.8 cm (3 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Dr. Harris Kennedy, Milton, MA (by 1932), gift; to the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum, 1932.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Dr. Harris Kennedy, Class of 1894
Accession Year
1932
Object Number
1932.56.39
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Caroline Houser, Dionysos and His Circle: Ancient Through Modern, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1979), no. 16.
  • [Reproduction Only], Persephone, (Spring 2004)., Cover illustration
  • Clare Fitzgerald, ed., Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes, exh. cat., Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (Princeton, 2019), pp. 16-18, fig. 1-2; p. 118, no.1

Exhibition History

  • Dionysos and His Circle: Ancient through Modern, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/10/1979 - 02/10/1980
  • The Art of South Italy: Vases from Magna Graecia, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 05/12/1982 - 08/08/1982; Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, 11/21/1982 - 01/09/1983; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 01/21/1983 - 03/27/1983
  • The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii: Ancient Ritual, Modern Muse, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 09/30/2000 - 11/17/2000
  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/17/2017 - 01/07/2018
  • Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York, 03/06/2019 - 06/02/2019

Verification Level

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