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Bucket (situla)
Bucket (situla)

Bucket (situla)

the Varrese Painter
about 350–340 B.C.
Country of Origin, for CustomsItaly
Place of ManufactureApulia, Italy
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, Red Figure
DimensionsHeight (max.): 28.1 cm
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds by exchange from a Gift of Horace L. Mayer and Paul E. Manheim and the Helen and Alice Colburn Fund
Accession number1992.317
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsVessels
ProvenanceBy 1978: Los Angeles market, Summa Galleries inv. 71 (according to A. D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, vol. 1: Early and Middle Apulian [1978], p. 343, no. 35, pl. 111, 2-4); by 1990: with Atlantis Antiquities, 40 East 69th Street, New York and Hesperia Arts Auction, Ltd., 29 West 57th Street, New York; sold at Hesperia Arts Auction, Ltd., Park Lane Hotel, 36 Central Park South, New York, November 27, 1990, part 2, lot 35; by 1992: with Acanthus, 24 East 81st Street, New York 10028; purchased by MFA from Acanthus, June 24, 1992
Mixing bowl (column krater)
Mixing bowl (column krater)
the Varrese Painter
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Beheaded man
Mixing bowl (volute krater)
the Varrese Painter
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the Phiale Painter (also known as the Boston Phiale Painter)
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Fragment of a loutrophoros depicting the preparations of a bride
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the Phiale Painter (also known as the Boston Phiale Painter)
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Two-handled jar (pelike) with actors preparing for a performance
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the Phiale Painter (also known as the Boston Phiale Painter)
about 430 B.C.
Libation bowl (phiale mesomphalos) depicting men being entertained
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the Phiale Painter (also known as the Boston Phiale Painter)
about 430 B.C.
Herakles (Red figure)
Two-handled jar (amphora) with Herakles driving a bull to sacrifice
the Andokides Painter
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Two-handled jar (amphora) with Achilles and Ajax
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the Andokides Painter
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Mixing bowl (column krater) depicting Medea and Pelias
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the Aegisthus Painter
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Oil flask (lekythos) with the hunter Kephalos and his dog
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the Pan Painter
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Drinking cup (kylix) with an artist painting a head
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the Ambrosios Painter
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Janiform drinking cup (kantharos)
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