Gnathian ware skyphos | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 325 B.C.

Medium: Ceramic (light brown clay: 7.5 YR 6/4). Gnathia ware. Black glaze with added yellow, red, and white pigments painted over.
Dimensions: 3 1/4 × 5 3/8 in. (8.2 × 13.6 cm)
5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm) handles
3 1/16 in. (7.8 cm) without handles
Credit Line: Gift of Ruth I. Stearns
Accession Number: 1985.36.1
Culture: Greek, South Italian, Apulian
Period: Late Classical or Early Hellenistic
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Found in Italy. Gift of Miss Ruth I. Stearns, who was given the cup ca. 1962 by a young woman she met in a tourist bureau. The woman was the daughter of a man in charge of excavations in all of Italy.

Bibliography

Wendy M. Watson, South Italian Greek Vases: From the collection of George Walter Vincent and Belle Townsley Smith (Springfield, Mass.: G.W. Vincent Smith Art Museum, 1986).

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

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