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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1925.30.50
People
The Diosphos Painter, Greek (c. 500 BCE - c. 475 BCE)
Title
Alabastron (oil flask): Female Figure Seated to Right
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
5th century BCE
Period
Classical period, Early
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/291596

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Technique
Black-figure
Dimensions
14.7 cm (5 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Joseph Hoppin Clark, purchased in Athens, 1898; bequeathed to Fogg Art Museum, 1925.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Beazley Archive Database #13285

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Joseph C. Hoppin
Accession Year
1925
Object Number
1925.30.50
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Body: in center a female figure seated to right looking backwards at a youth leaning on a knobbed stick; at her right and looking back at her a second youth clad like the first with a purse in his extended right.; behind him a second female figure to right.

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)

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