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Mug (oinochoe) with youth dancing and girl playing pipes
Greek
Late Archaic Period
about 480 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Overall: 8.1cm (3 3/16in.)
Other (H): 9cm (3 9/16in.)
Weight: 1 lb. (0.45 kg)
Other (H): 9cm (3 9/16in.)
Weight: 1 lb. (0.45 kg)
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number00.339
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 020.
DescriptionOne-handled mug. A nude youth dances and playing wooden clappers (krotala) faces right. A young girl playing the double pipes faces the dancer. She wears a long dress (chiton), and has blonde hair.
Condition: Slight restorations.
Condition: Slight restorations.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: W. H. Forman Collection; inherited from him by Mrs. Burt and then, about 1889, by A. H. Browne; by 1899: with Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 13 Wellington Street, Strand, London W.C., England, auction of the Forman Collection, June 19-22, lot 361 (said to be from Locri and from the Hertz Collection, sale catalogue, lot 806); by 1900: with E. P. Warren (according to Warren's records: Hertz and Forman collections); purchased by MFA from E. P. Warren, February 1900