One-handled mug. A nude youth dances and playing wooden clappers (krotala) faces right. A young girl playing the double pipes faces the dancer. She wears a long dress (chiton), and has blonde hair. Condition: Slight restorations.
Provenance
By date unknown: W. H. Forman Collection; inherited from him by Mrs. Burt and then, about 1889, by A. H. Browne; by 1899: with Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 13 Wellington Street, Strand, London W.C., England, auction of the Forman Collection, June 19-22, lot 361 (said to be from Locri and from the Hertz Collection, sale catalogue, lot 806); by 1900: with E. P. Warren (according to Warren's records: Hertz and Forman collections); purchased by MFA from E. P. Warren, February 1900
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Greek, Late Archaic Period, about 480 B.C.
Place of Manufacture
Athens, Attica, Greece
Catalogue Raisonné
Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 020.
Dimensions
Height: 8.1 cm (3 3/16 in.); diameter: 9 cm (3 9/16 in.)
Accession Number
00.339
Medium or Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure