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Nov 12, 2009

Black-Figure Oinochoe (Wine Jug): Boxers

c. 550–540 BC

attributed to Class of London B 524

Greek, Attic

Ceramic

Overall: 22.3 cm (8 3/4 in.)

Gift of Amadio Canessa 1916.1062

Location

102B Greek

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An ancient boxing match (or pyx) continued until one boxer could not (or would not) continue.

Description

Two stout young boxers, unbearded, face off on this small wine jug. Curiously, while one boxer has both hands wrapped for fighting (in leather straps known as himantes), the other has left one hand bare, holding it up to fend off punches. The seated figure at left, with one hand raised, may be a judge. The standing figure at right, whose white hair and beard are now mostly gone, is likely a spectator.

Artist biography

Class of London B 524

Attic vase painters

Provenance

?-1916

Amadio Canessa, New York, NY, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1916-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. BAPD 351293 www.beazley.ox.ac.uk

"Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 2 (1917): 26-37. Mentioned: p. 26 www.jstor.org

Beazley, J. D., J. D. Beazley, and J. D. Beazley. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters (Second Edition). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. p. 179, no. 6

Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. p. 11, Plate 17,I-2

Poliakoff, Michael. Combat Sports in the Ancient World: Competition, Violence, and Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. p. 72

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. 109

Stansbury-O'Donnell, Mark. Vase Painting, Gender, and Social Identity in Archaic Athens. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006. p. 19, fig. 8

Neils, Jenifer. Goddess and Polis: The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens. Hanover, N.H.; Princeton, N.J.: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College; Princeton University Press, 1992. Reproduced: p 168, cat. 35

Exhibition history

Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).

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