- Museum number
- 1873,0820.354
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured hydria.
Dancing lesson. In the centre two young girls with short chiton, a diploïs with embattled border and horizontal zigzag lines, hair gathered in a wavy mass behind, dance towards each other, hands on hips, and head turned outwards: the one on the left has a wreath, the other a fillet. Over each of them is inscribed ΚΑΛE, καλή. On the right is the instructress, a grown woman in a sleeved chiton, with a mantle knotted around her waist, a necklace, and hair confined with a radiated stephane, holding at her side a long purse (?). With her right she points towards an ephebos who stands on the left looking on, leaning against a knotted staff, with his right hand on his hip: he wears an himation and a laurel wreath composed of leaves and berries set upright in a fillet. Above his head is inscribed ΚΑΛΟΣ, καλός. Over the centre of the scene hangs a lyre, the body horse-shoe shaped, decorated on each side with an eye, en face.
Purple (now nearly white) inscriptions, headdress of dancers, and berries of the ephebos' wreath, and tuning pegs and plectrum-cord of lyre. Brown inner markings, folds of dancers' chiton, and pattern on their diploïs. The design curves up over the shoulder. Below, a strip of maeanders broken by chequer squares; above, a strip of upright palmette and honeysuckle: round the lip and handles, egg pattern.
- Production date
- 430BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 39.37 centimetres
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Height: 390 millimetres
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Weight: 2.50 kilograms (approx)
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Width: 330 millimetres
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Depth: 270 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
For a similar subject, cf. BM Vase Ε203, and Daremberg and Saglio, s.v. Educatio, fig. 2606. On the representation of girls in vase-painting, see Hartwig, Meistersch. p. 321. For the type of lyre, cf. Schreiber-Anderson, Atlas of Cl. Ant. pl. 84, 2.
- Location
- On display (G20a/dc26)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2008 1 May-12 Jul, Shanghai, The Ancient Olympic Games
2008 2 Aug-31 Sep, Hong Kong, The Ancient Olympic Games
2009 2 Apr-13 Oct, Alicante, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2010 30 Apr-30 Aug, Seoul, National Museum of Korea, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
Exhibited:
2009 2 Apr-13 Oct, Alicante, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2010 30 Apr-30 Aug, Seoul, National Museum of Korea, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2010-2011 15 Oct-07 Feb, Taipei, The National Palace Museum, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2010-2011, 11 Mar-12 Jun, Kobe City Museum, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2011, 4 July-25 Sept, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2011-2012, 25 Oct-12 Feb, Mexico City, National Anthropological Museum, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2012-2013 6 Oct-6 Jan, Portland Art Museum, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2013, 6 May–6 Oct, Dallas Museum of Art, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2014, 21 Feb-9 Jun, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2014, 2 Aug–9 Nov, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia, The Body Beautiful in Greek Art and Thought
- Acquisition date
- 1873
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1873,0820.354
