Vessel fragments with a woman holding a child
Culture: South Italian
Date: ca. 390-380 BC
Medium: Terracotta, red-figure technique
Dimensions:
preserved height: 3 13/16 in. (9.7 cm)
preserved width: 3 in. (7.6 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: 86.134.91.a-b
Provenance: Ariadne Galleries, New York, by gift to Gilbert M. Denman, Jr. (1921-2004), San Antonio, 1982; Gilbert M. Denman, Jr., by gift to San Antonio Museum of Art, 1986
Published References
H.A. Shapiro, C.A. Picón, and G.D. Scott, III, eds., Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio, 1995) pp. 206-7, no. 101
L. Todisco, Teatro e spettacolo in Magna Grecia e in Sicilia: Testi, immagini, architettura (Milan, 2002), 76.
L. Todisco, ed., La ceramica figurata a soggetto tragico in Magna Grecia e in Sicilia (Rome, 2003), 114 n. 62, 413, no. Ap 29, pl. 53, table 13.
Label Text
In the late 5th century B.C. pottery workshops in the Greek cities of southern Italy and Sicily began to produce their own red-figure vases in imitation of the popular Attic pottery in this technique. These fragments belonged to a vase made in Apulia, the region encompassing the heel of Italy. (Jessica Powers 2008)
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