1925.30.5: Black-Figure Aryballos: Winged Mistress of Animals
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1925.30.5
- Title
- Black-Figure Aryballos: Winged Mistress of Animals
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- c. 575 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Corinthia
- Period
- Archaic period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/292559
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta; pale yellow clay with slip, applied purple for details
- Technique
- Wheel-made
- Dimensions
- 7.6 cm (3 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
- 1925.30.5
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
- Intact. Rosette on top of rim, shoulder, and base, dots on edge of rim, stripes on handle. On body, winged Mistress of Animals to right holding two geese by their necks and behind her a lion. Two flying birds and rosettes in field. Black figure.
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)
- George M. A. Hanfmann, Greek Art and Life, An Exhibition Catalogue, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1950), no. 113.
Exhibition History
- Greek Art and Life: From the Collections of the Fogg Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Private Lenders, Fogg Art Museum, 03/07/1950 - 04/15/1950
- [teaching exhibition], University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque
Verification Level
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