Jar (amphora) with Herakles, Deianeira and Nessos
Date: ca. 540-530 B.C.
Dimensions:height: 15 3/4 in. (40 cm)
max. width including handles: 10 7/8 in. (27.6 cm)
max. diameter (body): 10 9/16 in. (26.8 cm)
diameter of foot: 5 9/16 in. (14.2 cm)
diameter of rim: 6 11/16 in. (17 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: 75.59.15
Provenance: Samuel Rogers (1763-1855), London, by 1855; in his sale at Christie's, London, April 28, 1856, lot 348; his nephew William Sharpe (c. 1805-c. 1870), London, by 1870; his daughter Mary Catherine Sharpe (c. 1842-c. 1935), Middlesex, before 1934; her nephew Stephen Lewis Courtauld (1882-1967), London, Baintree, and Eltham Hall, U.K., and La Rochelle, Rhodesia (modern Zimbabwe) by 1934; probably by inheritance to Viriginia Peirano Courtauld (c. 1883-1972), La Rochelle, and Jersey, U.K., 1967; sold, Sotheby's, London, December 9, 1974, lot 227, to San Antonio Museum Association; transferred to San Antonio Museum of Art, 1994
Label TextSide A: Herakles slaying the centaur Nessos
Side B: A wheeling chariot