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Water Jar (Kalpis) with Three Women

Water Jar (Kalpis) with Three Women

The Pisticci Painter (attributed to)

The figured scene on this storage jar, usually used for water, shows three women. The central woman holds an alabastron (a small flask for oil) in her right hand and a mirror in her left. A pet heron stands between her and the woman on her right, and a basket (kalathos) between her and the woman on her left.
Artist
The Pisticci Painter (attributed to)
(Greek, active in Luciania, active ca. 440-ca. 410 B.C.E.)
Title
Water Jar (Kalpis) with Three Women
Date
ca. 440-430 B.C.E.
Medium
Earthenware with red-figure decoration
Dimensions
11 3/16 x 10 1/2 in. overall
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Frank
Accession No.
1985.98
Classification
Ceramics
Geography
Greece

Related

by 27 November 1978, with the Summa Galleries, Inc. (Beverly Hills, CA); October 1979, sold by Summa Galleries, Inc. (Beverly Hills, CA) to Arthur J. and Edith F. Frank (Hartland, WI); 15 October 1979, deposited on long-term loan by Arthur J. and Edith F. Frank at the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]; 1985, gifted by Arthur J. and Edith F. Frank to Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]. [Last researched by Chazen staff January 2024]

  • Söldner, Magdalene. "Bios Eudaimon: Zur Ikonographie des Menschen in der rotfigurigen Vasenmalerei Unteritaliens Die Bilder aus Lukanien." Münster: Bibliopolis, 2007.
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Ancient Etruscan and Greek Vases in the Elvehjem Museum of Art." University of Wisconsin Regents. Madison, Wis., 2000. p. 65, no. 44
  • Trendall, A.D. "The Red-figure Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Supplement I." London, 1970. no. 55b
  • Summa Galleries, The. "Ancient Art Catalogue 5" September 1979. no. 18
  • Virginia Museum. "The Art of South Italy: Vases from Magna Graecia." Richmond 1982.
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Artscene." Vol. 2, No. 1, January/February 1986. p. 1

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