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Pitcher (oinochoe) with a maenad and satyr
Greek
Early Classical Period
about 450 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Height: 18.5 cm (7 5/16 in.) height with handle: 23 cm (9 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912
Accession Number13.197
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 040.
DescriptionOinochoe with circular mouth and high handle. To right, a woman in Ionic chiton with ivy wreath in her hair, moving to right, her body in front view, her head to left, holding thyrsos in left hand and kantharos in right towards a Seilenos, standing in three-quarter view to right, playing lyre.
[Label text]:
The figures painted on this oinochoe are the typical followers of the cult of Dionysus. A satyr plays a lyre and a maenad carries a kantharos and her thyrsos.
[Label text]:
The figures painted on this oinochoe are the typical followers of the cult of Dionysus. A satyr plays a lyre and a maenad carries a kantharos and her thyrsos.
ProvenanceSaid to be from Gela, Italy. 1911, 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. Shipped to Warren in 1911 as "Big Jug--satyr and maenad" (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. Shipped to Warren in 1911 as "Big Jug--satyr and maenad" (source: private archive). Many thanks to Erin Thompson for facilitating access to this material.