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Pitcher (oinochoe) with satyrs and a sleeping maenad
Manner of: the Dinos Painter
Greek
Classical Period
about 420 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Height: 21.6 cm (8 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number01.8085
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 113.
DescriptionOinochoë of squat form. Sleeping Maenad with thyrsos approached by a satyr: another springs away to right. Vase repaired, but drawing not much injured. Glaze weathered.
ProvenanceBy 1901: with E. P. Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in Athens.); purchased by MFA from E. P. Warren, December 1901