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Explore image in Artist, attributed to: Niobid Painter, Greek, Attic, active ca. 470–ca. 445 B.C.
Athenian red-figure vase fragment of a woman’s head wearing a diadem
ca. 460 B.C.–450 B.C.
Ceramic, red-figure, relief line, relief contour, interior unglazed
3.6 × 4.3 × 0.7 cm (1 7/16 × 1 11/16 × 1/4 in.)
Ruth Elizabeth White Fund
2008.136.1.52
Culture:
Greek, Attic
Period:
Early Classical
Classification:
Containers - Ceramics
Provenance:
From Greece (M. Robertson); ex collection Martin Robertson (1911-2004); with Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd., London, 2008; purchased by Yale University, 2008
Bibliography:
“Acquisitions 2009,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2009): 142.
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).
Susan B. Matheson, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Yale University Art Gallery (Darmstadt, Germany: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2016), 99, no. 82, pl. 127.3.
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.
