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Perfume jar in the shape of a sandalled right foot signed "Gryton made [me]"

Greek
Archaic period
mid 6th century B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Boiotia

Medium/Technique Ceramic
Dimensions 7.4 x 9 cm (2 15/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number98.897
ClassificationsVessels

Catalogue Raisonné Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 536.
DescriptionStraps and ornaments painted in dark brown. On sole incised inscription. Toes missing.. In form of foot with sandal.

Corinthian Style
InscriptionsΓΡΥΤΟΝ ΕΠΟΙΕSΕ
ProvenanceBy 1896: with Edward Perry Warren (according to his records: bought in Thebes, Feb. 1896); 1898: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren for $ 69,618.13 (this figure is the total price for MFA 98.641-98.940)