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Artist: Kleophrades Painter, Greek, Attic, ca. 505–475 B.C.
Athenian Red-Figure fragments of loutrophoros depicting a) prothesis and b) mounted riders
500–480 B.C.
Ceramic, exterior a) red-figure, b) black-figure; interior reserved
fragment a: 7 × 7.5 × 0.6 cm (2 3/4 × 2 15/16 × 1/4 in.)
fragment b: 7.1 × 10.2 × 1.1 cm (2 13/16 × 4 × 7/16 in.)
fragment b: 7.1 × 10.2 × 1.1 cm (2 13/16 × 4 × 7/16 in.)
Ruth Elizabeth White Fund
2008.136.1.53
Culture:
Greek, Attic
Period:
Late Archaic
Classification:
Containers - Ceramics
Provenance:
Ex collection Professor 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.
Susan B. Matheson, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Yale University Art Gallery (Darmstadt, Germany: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2016), 94-95, no. 77, pl. 126.3.
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.
