1960.358: Red-Figure Bell Krater: Seated Maenad Playing a Double Flute

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1960.358

People

The Amykos Painter, Greek (active 420 - 400 BCE)

Title

Red-Figure Bell Krater: Seated Maenad Playing a Double Flute

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

420-400 BCE

Places

Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Lucania

Period

Classical period

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/291241

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Terracotta

Dimensions

31.6 x 32.5 cm (12 7/16 x 12 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Ex Warren collection.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of David M. Robinson

Accession Year

1960

Object Number

1960.358

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Side A: Seated maenad playing double flute with satyrs dancing; Side B: Three cloaked young men. Laurel wreath on rim, meander base.

Publication History

• A. D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania, and Sicily, Oxford University Press (UK) (Oxford, 1967), p. 34, no. 120
• Caroline Houser, Dionysos and His Circle: Ancient Through Modern, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1979), no. 14.

Exhibition History

• The David Moore Robinson Bequest of Classical Art and Antiquities: A Special Exhibition, Fogg Art Museum, 05/01/1961 - 09/20/1961
• Dionysos and His Circle: Ancient through Modern, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/10/1979 - 02/10/1980
• 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

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