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Water jar (kalpis) with a Satyr chorus dancing before an aulete
Greek
Early Classical period
480–460 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure technique
Dimensions
Height: 32.5 cm (12 13/16 in.); diameter: 26.5 cm (10 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1900
Accession Number03.788
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 151.
Description
The shoulder of this red figured jar features five members of a satyr chorus who dance toward musicians. The chorusmen wear identical full head masks of satyrs with large ears, shorts (perizoma) with attached bushy horse tails and phalloi. The men are shown in a variety of movements illustrating the individualism of satyr dances. They each carry part of a singe piece of furniture probably parts of a symposium couch or throne for Dionysos. They move as a unit toward the flute player (auletes) and and youn man with wide eyes and puffed out cheeks, probably he played an instrument whose outlines are now lost.
Missing: foot and fragments of body.
The shoulder of this red figured jar features five members of a satyr chorus who dance toward musicians. The chorusmen wear identical full head masks of satyrs with large ears, shorts (perizoma) with attached bushy horse tails and phalloi. The men are shown in a variety of movements illustrating the individualism of satyr dances. They each carry part of a singe piece of furniture probably parts of a symposium couch or throne for Dionysos. They move as a unit toward the flute player (auletes) and and youn man with wide eyes and puffed out cheeks, probably he played an instrument whose outlines are now lost.
Missing: foot and fragments of body.
ProvenanceBy 1903: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in Athens.); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, March 24, 1903