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Figures with staffs and musical instruments parade along.

The vessel has a wide spout and two handles on the side of the body. It is mostly painted black, and in red there are five figures, some of whom wear robes and some of whom are nude and have tails. They parade from left to right, though some look back to interact with those behind them. They hold staffs and musical instruments. Looping and square linear decorations line the spout and border the image.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1925.30.40
People
The Curti Painter, Greek (440 - 430 BCE)
Title
Stamnos (mixing vessel): Dionysos with satyrs and maenads; maenad and satyrs
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
440-430 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Attica
Period
Classical period, Early
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/292314

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Technique
Red-figure
Dimensions
irregular: 45.4 cm (17 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sig. Pascale Santa Maria di Capua, (by 1897), sale; to Joseph C. Hoppin, Pomfre, CT (1897-1925), 1897, bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1925.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Beazley Archive Database #213538

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Joseph C. Hoppin
Accession Year
1925
Object Number
1925.30.40
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Red-figure stamnos. Figures on both sides stands on a groundline consisting of a maeander pattern. A series of palmettes appear under and above each handle.

Side A: a thiasos. Dionysos stands in the center flanked on either side by a pair of satyrs and maenads. Bearded, wearing a long himation and ivy wreath, Dionysos twists his upper body to the left and holds a kantharos in his outstretched right arm. In his right hand, is a thyrsos.

Side B: a maenad flanked by two satyrs. Wearing a long garment, the maenad stands in the center, facing right, and holding a thyrsos in her right hand. Her hair is pulled back into a patterned cap. On the left, a satyr holds a large wineskin while the figure holds a kantharos aloft in his right hand and a leans slightly on a thyrsos, which he holds in the left.

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), p. 9-10, pls. 14.1-3, 15.1-3.
  • J. D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1963), 1042.1
  • Caroline Houser, Dionysos and His Circle: Ancient Through Modern, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1979), no. 11
  • John Boardman, Athenian Red Figure Vases : The Classical Period, Thames & Hudson (London, England and New York, NY, 1989), fig. 146
  • Thomas Carpenter, Thomas Mannack, and Melanie Mendonca, ed., Beazley addenda : additional references to ABV, ARV² & Paralipomena, Oxford University Press (UK) (Oxford, 1989), p. 320
  • Susan B. Matheson, Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens (The University of Wisconsin Press, 1995), pp. 129-134, pl. 117A
  • Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC), Artemis (Zürich, Switzerland, 1999), Vol 3., Dionysos 350.

Exhibition History

  • Dionysos and His Circle: Ancient through Modern, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/10/1979 - 02/10/1980

Verification Level

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