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HYDRIA (ATHENIAN, RED-FIGURE)

Red-figure KLEOPHRADES P · Hydria · -500 to -450

Body: UNDECORATED | Shoulder: PHINEUS SEATED ON STOOL, HARPIES (WINGED WOMEN), ONE WITH BREAD AND MEAT, TABLE WITH BREAD AND MEAT,BASKET, SKYPHOS

Provenance

3 recorded events

First recorded c. early 19th century

Campania, Italy

First recorded in the region of Campania, likely from one of the major necropolis sites around Naples.

Purchase c. 1830s

Real Museo Borbonico

Naples, Italy

Acquired for the Bourbon royal collection at the Real Museo Borbonico.

Purchase 1860

Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli

Naples, Italy

Became part of the national museum collection after Italian unification. A major work of the Kleophrades Painter with vigorous Dionysiac scenes.

Naples Museum inventory

Shape

Technique

Date

-500 to -450

Culture

ATHENIAN

Painter

Attribution

Attributed

Museum

Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli

Accession Number

248779

Images courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0)