Ceremonial jar (lebes gamikos) with a woman, a youth, and Eros

Image Not Available

Ceremonial jar (lebes gamikos) with a woman, a youth, and Eros

Artist: Attributed to the Painter of Paestum 21602

Culture: South Italian

Date: ca. 340-330 BC

Medium: Fired clay (red-figure technique)

Dimensions:

height to top of lid (as preserved): 16 3/4 in. (42.6 cm)

height to top of bowl: 9 7/16 in. (24 cm)

height to top of handles: 12 13/16 in. (32.5 cm)

diameter at shoulder: 7 5/8 in. (19.4 cm)

diameter of foot: 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm)

Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.

Object number: 87.34.a-c

Provenance: with Summa Galleries, Beverly Hills, by 1981; sold by Numismatic Fine Arts, Los Angeles, to San Antonio Museum of Art, 1987

Published References Summa Galleries, Inc., Auction I, Beverly Hills (Calif.), 18 September 1981, no. 30 A.D. Trendall, Red-figured Vases of Paestum (British School at Rome, 1987) 184, no. 419, pl. 129 c-d H.A. Shapiro, C.A. Picón, G.D. Scott, III, eds., Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio, 1995) pp. 242-3, no. 123 G. Hughes. "Erato: Twenty Elegies." (San Antonio: Pecan Grove Press, 2010) [cover image]

Label Text

Side A: A youth and a woman beside a basin
Side B: Eros and a woman
The woman in this scene is probably a bride preparing for her wedding. Vessels in this shape are often shown in wedding scenes on Greek vases; the lebes gamikos may have been given as a wedding gift or used to hold water for the bride’s pre-nuptial bath. (Jessica Powers 2008)

On view

The San Antonio Museum of Art is in the process of digitizing its permanent collection. This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect SAMA's complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.

Artwork

Ceremonial jar (lebes gamikos) with a woman, a youth, and Eros

Ceremonial jar (lebes gamikos) with a woman, a youth, and Eros