Miniature black-figure kothon Artist: Swan Group (Greek, Attic, ca. 550-500 B.C.)

ca. 575–550 B.C. or later

Ancient Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Terracotta with black glaze and added red; black-figure

Dimensions

1 3/4 × 1 15/16 in. (4.5 × 4.9 cm)
diameter of the mouth: 13/16 in. (2 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Rebecca Darlington Stoddard

Accession Number

1913.123a-b

Culture

Greek, Attic

Period

Archaic

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Ex collections Löfftz, Munich (Baur; likely Ludwig von Lofftz [1845-1910], painter and professor, Munich Academy), and Dr. Paul Arndt, Munich; purchased by Yale University with a gift from Rebecca Darlington Stoddard, 1913.
Bibliography
  • Susan B. Matheson, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Yale University Art Gallery (Darmstadt, Germany: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2016), 54, no. 42, pl. 103.5-6, fig. 39
  • Thomas Mannack, "Beazley Archive Database," http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/xdb/ASP/browse.asp?tableName=qryData&newwindow=&BrowseSession=1&companyPage=Contacts&newwindowsearchclosefrombrowse= (accessed 1997–2019),
  • Sir John Davidson Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, 1st (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956), 657, no. 117
  • Professor Paul V. C. Baur, Catalogue of the Rebecca Darlington Stoddard Collection of Greek and Italian Vases at Yale University, 1st ed. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1922), 83, fig. 16
  • Professor Paul V. C. Baur, Preliminary Catalogue of the Rebecca Darlington Stoddard Collection of Greek and Italian Vases in Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1914), 14, no. 124
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States

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