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

c. 425–420 BC

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attributed to Shuvalov Painter

(Greek, Attic, active c. 440–410 BC)

Greek, Attic

Ceramic

Overall: 0.4 cm (3/16 in.)

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1915.533.d

Find spot: Orvieto

Location

102B Greek

Fun Fact

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.

Shuvalov Painter

Attic vase-painter, ca. 450-ca. 420 BCE

Provenance

1915

Through Harold Woodbury Parsons, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1915-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

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

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

Exhibition history

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