Oinochoe showing Poseidon and Theseus Artist: Painter of the Yale Oinochoe(name vase) (Greek, Attic, ca. 475-450 B.C.)

ca. 470–460 B.C.

Ancient Art

On view, 1st floor, Ancient Art
Medium

Terracotta, red figure

Dimensions

15 7/8 × 10 1/4 × 10 3/16 in. (40.4 × 26.1 × 25.8 cm)
Foot: 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Rebecca Darlington Stoddard

Accession Number

1913.143

Culture

Greek, Attic

Period

Early Classical

Classification

Containers

Disclaimer

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 records is ongoing.

Provenance
Said to be from Athens; ex. coll. Dr. Paul Arndt, Munich; purchased for Yale University by Rebecca Darlington Stoddard, 1913.
Bibliography
  • Susan B. Matheson, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Yale University Art Gallery I (Mainz, Germany: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2011), 22–23, no. 17, pls. 25–26, fig. 17
  • Susan B. Matheson, Art for Yale: A History of the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2001), 62–63, fig. 50
  • Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 263, ill
  • Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV2 and Paralipomena, 2nd (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), 251
  • Jerome Jordan Pollitt, "Pots, Politics, and Personifications in Early Classical Athens," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 40, no. 1 (Spring 1987), 8–15, fig. 2
  • Christa Bauchenss-Thüriedl, Erika Simon, and Ingrid Krauskopf, Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, 8 vols. (Zurich: Artemis, 1981–97), vol. 7, p. 469, no. 209a; vol. 7, p. 948, no. 319
  • Professor Paul V. C. Baur, "The Stoddard Collection of Greek Vases," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University (1929),
  • 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), 96, no. 143, pl. 10, fig. 29
  • Joseph Clark Hoppin, A Handbook of Attic Red-Figured Vases Signed by or Attributed to the Various Masters of the Sixth and Fifth Centuries B.C., 2nd ed., 2 vols. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1919), 484, no. 6
  • Sir John Davidson Beazley, Attic Red Figure Vases in American Museums (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1918), 61–62, no. 9
  • 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), 17, no. 145
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

mythology, oinochoai

Subject

Poseidon (Greek deity) Theseus, King of Athens

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