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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1925.30.48
Title
Red-figure Bell Krater: Seated Woman with a Flowering Branch
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
390-380 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Attica?
Period
Classical period, Late
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/291678

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Dimensions
h. 36.7 x diam. 37 cm (14 7/16 x 14 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Joseph Clark Hoppin, purchased in Rome, 1899; bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1925.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Joseph C. Hoppin
Accession Year
1925
Object Number
1925.30.48
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Side A: In the center a woman seated on a rock to right looking back. She wears a chiton, opisthosphendone, earrings, necklace, bracelets, and shoes, and rests her right hand on the rock while in her left she holds a flower branch. At the left, facing her, stands a nude youth wearing a fillet in his hair, holding his cloak over his left arm and carrying a strigil in his right. At the right another woman clad like the first but without the shoes, holding a flower in her right hand and a diadem or wreath in her left. Plants are growing on the rock, and on the rock and above the design are yellow engobes. In the field a wheel?
Side B: Three mantle figures wearing fillets, the central figure with a staff, that on the right holding a strigil.

Inside rim, two narrow reserved bands. Outside rim, lateral leaf border. Above picture on Side A ovolo border and below on each side meander and saltire squares border. At joint of handles a tongue pattern and below a palmette. Applied yellow is used for the fillets, necklaces, bracelets, earring, and flower. Hair outline reserved in all figures. Drawing on B greatly inferior to that of A.

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)

Verification Level

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