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Fragment from Red-Figure Oinochoe (Wine Jug) or Hydria (Water Jar): Woman Holding Box

c. 425–420 BCE

attributed to Shuvalov Painter

(Greek, Attic, active c. 440–410 BCE)
Greek, Attic
ceramic
Overall: 0.4 cm (3/16 in.)
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1915.533.d
Location: 102B Greek

Did You Know?

The Shuvalov Painter is named after the former owner of an amphora now in the Hermitage.

Description

The relatively large eyes and head of this seated woman are characteristic of figures painted by the Shuvalov Painter, a painter known to have painted numerous small vases during the mid- to late fifth century BC. Along with many mythological subjects, the Shuvalov Painter often showed women in domestic settings, as here; the box or chest she holds could be a bridal gift.
  • 1915
    Through Harold Woodbury Parsons, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1915-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Beazley Archive. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive, n.d. BAPD 216536 www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
    Beazley, J. D. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963. p. 1210, no. 75
    Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. p. 25, Plate 39-D-E www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
    Lezzi-Hafter, Adrienne. Der Schuwalow-Maler: eine Kannenwerkstatt der Parthenonzeit. Mainz/Rhein: P. von Zabern, 1976. p. 107, S 55; Taf. 128a.
    Carpenter, Thomas H., J. D. Beazley, Thomas Mannack, Melanie Mendonça, and Lucilla Burn. Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV² & Paralipomena. Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1989. p. 347
  • Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).
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