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Pitcher (oinochoe) depicting a komos with a bearded man and youth
Greek
Classical Period
about 450 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Height: 20 cm (7 7/8 in.); height (with handle): 24.5 cm (9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912
Accession Number13.192
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 043.
DescriptionOinochoe with circular mouth and high handle.
To right, a youth, nude, with himation hanging from outstretched left arm, moving to right, his body in front view, his head to left, holding out a skyphos to a bearded man, nude with himation and staff over left shoulder, bending forward and holding out right hand.
[Label text]:
On this oinochoe, a young man offers a skyphos to an older man leaning on a staff, perhaps inviting the man to join him at a symposium.
To right, a youth, nude, with himation hanging from outstretched left arm, moving to right, his body in front view, his head to left, holding out a skyphos to a bearded man, nude with himation and staff over left shoulder, bending forward and holding out right hand.
[Label text]:
On this oinochoe, a young man offers a skyphos to an older man leaning on a staff, perhaps inviting the man to join him at a symposium.
ProvenanceSaid to be from Gela, Italy. 1911, probably sold by Tommaso and Ignazio Virzi (dealers), Palermo, to Edward Perry Warren (b. 1860 - d. 1928), London and Rome; 1913, sold by E. P. Warren to the MFA for $18,948.70 [see note]. (Accession Date: January 2, 1913)
NOTE: Total price paid for MFA accession nos. 13.186 - 13.245. Probably shipped to Warren in 1911 with other objects said to be from Gela, possibly as "Jug--Male[s?]" (source: private archive). Many thanks to Erin Thompson for facilitating access to this material.
NOTE: Total price paid for MFA accession nos. 13.186 - 13.245. Probably shipped to Warren in 1911 with other objects said to be from Gela, possibly as "Jug--Male[s?]" (source: private archive). Many thanks to Erin Thompson for facilitating access to this material.