Large Aryballos with Ring Foot | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1925.30.4
Title: Large Aryballos with Ring Foot
Classification: Vessels
Work Type: vessel
Date: c. 600 BCE-575 BCE
Places: Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Corinthia
Period: Orientalizing period to Archaic
Culture: Greek
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/292325

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Terracotta; pale yellow clay with slip, blackish-brown paint and applied purple
Technique: Wheel-made
Dimensions: 15 cm (5 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Joseph Clark Hoppin, Purchased in Athens, 1898, 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: 1925.30.4
Division: Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact: am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: Intact. Rosette border on top of rim and shoulder, dots on exterior of rim. On body, two heraldic panthers with goose between. Concentric bands on base. Fair blackish-brown glaze fired red in spots. Details in applied purple and usual ornaments in field.

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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1925.30.4: Large Aryballos with Ring Foot