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Pitcher (trefoil oinochoe)

about 340 B.C.
Place of ManufactureCampania, Italy
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, Red Figure
DimensionsHeight: 24.5 cm (9 5/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Boston Teachers Club in memory of Mary Ward (September 14, 1884 - May 6, 1949)
Accession number1970.363
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsVessels
Provenance1970: published by A. D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, First Supplement (1970), p. 47, no. 291a, as Boston 1970.363 (ex Zurich market); by date unknown: with Royal-Athena Galleries, 1066 Madison Avenue, New York; April or early May, 1970: purchased from Royal-Athena Galleries by the Boston Teachers Club; Gift of Boston Teachers Club to MFA, May 13, 1970
Plate
The Copenhagen Head Painter
about 320–310 B.C.
Quadruple vase ("Head-Cruet")
The Head-Cruet Class
End of 4th century B.C.
View 2
The A-B-C Group (The Winterthur Group)
330–320 B.C.
The Monash Group
about 360–350 B.C.
Drinking cup (skyphos)  with an amorous couple
Alabastra Group
about 330–320 B.C.
Mixing bowl (column-krater)
Sisyphus Group; associated with the Ariadne Painter
about 400–390 B.C.
Drinking cup (kantharos)
The Kantharos Group
about 320–310 B.C.
Drinking cup (kantharos)
The Kantharos Group
about 320–310 B.C.
Situla with an Amazonomachy scene
The Group of Copenhagen 2443
340–330 B.C.
Knob-handled patera
The Perrone-Phrixos Group
340–330 B.C.
Amphora
The Black and White Stripe Group
360–350 B.C.