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Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
Artist, attributed to: Nikoxenos Painter, Greek, Attic, ca. 500–ca. 475 B.C.
Attic Red-Figure Hydria Fragment
ca. 520 B.C.–510 B.C.
Ceramic, red-figure; relief line, contour, preliminary sketch; dilute glaze for muscles and boxing thongs, interior unglazed
7 × 7 × 0.7 cm (2 3/4 × 2 3/4 × 1/4 in.)
Ruth Elizabeth White Fund
2008.136.1.51
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
Greek, Attic
Period:
Archaic
Classification:
Containers - Ceramics
Provenance:
From Greece, bought in Athens before World War II (M. Robertson); ex collection Martin Robertson (1911-2004); with Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd., London, 2008; purchased by Yale University, 2008
Bibliography:
Martin Robertson, “American Journal of Archaeology 66,” American Journal of Archaeology 66 (1962): 311–12, pl. 83, ill.
Martin Robertson, The Art of Vase-Painting in Classical Athens (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 118–119, fig. 119.
“Acquisitions 2009,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2009): 142.
Susan B. Matheson, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Yale University Art Gallery (Darmstadt, Germany: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2016), 96-97, no. 79, pl. 126.5.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
