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hydria
Object Type
hydria
Museum number
1836,0224.21
Description
Pottery: red-figured hydria. Eros and fawn. Eros on left (short hair, fillet with point over forehead), leaning with left elbow on left knee raised, bends forward to stroke with right a fawn which couches on rising ground, its legs bent under it. In his left he holds three sprigs or flowers. Drawing graceful, but becoming careless. Purple fillet, sprigs, and lines of ground. Inner markings in brown. Eye in simple profile type. Below, strip of sets of three maeanders broken by chequer squares. Design extends to shoulder of vase.
Cultures/periods
Attic
Production date
430BC
(circa)
Production place
Made in:
Attica (Greece)
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Nola
Materials
pottery
Ware
Red Figure
Technique
painted
Dimensions
Height:
17.10 centimetres
Bibliographic references
Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum
(E213)
Old Catalogue / A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum
(745)
CVA British Museum 6 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 8, British Museum 6
(III Ic Pl. 89, 5)
Location
On display
(G20a/dc27)
Subjects
classical deity
mammal
Associated names
Representation of:
Eros/Cupid
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Edmé Antoine Durand
(sale)
Purchased through:
Peter Oluf Brøndsted
Acquisition date
1836
Department
Greek and Roman
Registration number
1836,0224.21