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Vase for bath water (loutrophoros) depicting Pelops and Hippodameia in a chariot
Vase for bath water (loutrophoros) depicting Pelops and Hippodameia in a chariot

Vase for bath water (loutrophoros) depicting Pelops and Hippodameia in a chariot

the White Sakkos Painter
320–310 B.C.
Place of ManufactureApulia, Italy
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, Red Figure
DimensionsHeight: 80 cm (31 1/2 in.); width: 33.2 cm (13 1/16 in.)
Credit LineMary S. and Edward J. Holmes Fund
Accession number1988.431
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsVessels
ProvenanceDecember 10, 1984, anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 366. By 1985, Royal-Athena Galleries, New York [see note 1]; 1988, sold by Royal-Athena Galleries to the MFA; [see note 2]; September 21, 2006, deaccessioned by the MFA for transfer to the Republic of Italy.

NOTES:
[1] Royal-Athena Galleries, Art of the Ancient World IV, no. 104b. [2] MFA accession date: October 26, 1988.

For further information, please see: http://www.mfa.org/collections/provenance/antiquities-and-cultural-property/italian-ministry-of-culture-agreement
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