Red figure Calyx Krater with Eos and Tithonos

Artist: Group of Polygnotos (Greek, Attic, active ca. 450 - 425 B.C.)

ca. 440–425 B.C.

Ancient Art

Not on view
Medium

Terracotta, red-figure

Dimensions

9 3/4 × 9 3/4 × 9 3/4 in. (24.8 × 24.8 × 24.8 cm)
Foot: 7/8 × 4 1/8 in. (2.3 × 10.4 cm)
inscription height of sigma: 5/8 × 1 5/8 in. (1.58 × 4.09 cm)

Credit Line

The Sarah J. Field Prize awarded to F. R. Gruger (1871-1953) for a painting in the student's exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, presented to Yale University by Frederic R. Gruger, Jr., 1923S

Accession Number

1994.53.1

Culture

Greek, Attic

Period

Classical

Classification

Containers

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Found in Nola, Italy, by Signor Doria of Sta. Maria di Capua; Commander Galozzi (nephew of the above); acquired from the above upon his death; Henry de Morgan, acquired from the above, 1892; Frederic R. Gruger, Sr., acquired from the above as SARAH J. FIELD PRIZE for a painting in the students' exhibiton at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1895; Frederic R. Gruger, Jr., acquired from the above, 1953; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., acquired from the above, 1994.
Bibliography
  • Susan B. Matheson, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Yale University Art Gallery I (Mainz, Germany: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2011), 13–14, no. 10, pls. 16, 18.1, 20.5–6, fig. 10
  • John Stuart Gordon et al., A Modern World: American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery, 1920–1950 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011), 236, no. 159a
  • "Acquisitions, January 1994–December 1995," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1995–96), 153
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

calyx kraters, mythology

Signed

Graffito (Four Greek Letters) on base

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