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“Deianeira” lekythos (oil vessel) depicting a mounted satyr pursuing a nymph,
ca. 580 BCE
in the manner of the Gorgon Painter
Greek, Attic
Archaic Period, ca. 600–480 BCE
2007-39
Information
Title
“Deianeira” lekythos (oil vessel) depicting a mounted satyr pursuing a nymph
Dates
ca. 580 BCE
Maker
in the manner of the Gorgon Painter
Medium
Black-figure ceramic
Dimensions
h. 31.7 cm, diam. 13.6 cm (12 1/2 x 5 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund and Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr. Memorial Collection Fund
Object Number
2007-39
Place Made
Europe, Greece, Athens
Culture
Period
Materials
Subject
Acquired by the Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, in 1933, from Jacob Hirsch, New York. Sold by the Albright-Knox at Sotheby's, New York, June 7, 2007, no. 33, to the Museum.
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Humfry Payne, Necrocorinthia, a study of Corinthian art in the archaic period, (Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1931).
, p. 193 - "Museum acquisitions in 2008", Gallery notes 1, no. 2 (Nov., 1933): p. 1., p. 1
- Ceramics: a survey of the great periods of pottery making (Buffalo, NY: The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1933)., no. 74
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Caroline Henriette Emilie Haspels, Attic black-figured lekythoi, (Paris: E. de Boccard, 1936).
, p. 1, note 4. - Margarete Bieber, "Two Attic black-figured lekythoi in Buffalo", American journal of archaeology 48, no. 2 (Apr.–Jun., 1944): p. 121-129., p. 122; fig. 1.
- J. D. Beazley, Attic Black-figure Vase-painters, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956)., no. 1
- J.R. Green, "Ajax or nymph? An aryballos in Dunedin", Antike Kunst 9, no. 2 (1966): p. 7-10., p. 7-9; pl. 3, fig. 3.
- John Boardman, Athenian black figure vases, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1974). , p. 17, fig. 16
- Stephanos Geroulanos and René Bridler, Trauma: Wund-Entstehung und Wund-Pflege im antiken Griechenland, (Mainz: P. von Zabern, 1994). , fig. 69
- Cornelia Isler-Kerényi, translated by Wilfred G.E. Watson, Dionysos in archaic Greece: an understanding through images, (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2007). , p. 67; figs. 35-36.
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Antiquities, including property of the Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, (New York: Sotheby's, 2007).
, lot 12 -
"Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2007," in "More than one: photographs in sequence," special issue, Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 67 (2008): p. 96-119.
, p. 111
