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Pitcher
Greek
Geometric Period
720–710 B.C.
Medium/Technique
Ceramic
Dimensions
Height: 40.2 cm (15 13/16 in.); height with handle: 42.5 cm (16 3/4 in.); diameter: 24.7 cm (9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Bartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1900
Accession Number03.777
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 267.
DescriptionFrom bottom to top: broad bands, zone of oblong leaves, hatched triangles; seated men with Boiotian shields and other seated figures. Neck has a hatched meander.
Pitcher - Diplon. Vase leans considerably; axis is not perpendicular to bottom.
Pitcher - Diplon. Vase leans considerably; axis is not perpendicular to bottom.
ProvenanceBy 1903: with Edward Perry Warren ([one of a group of eleven Dipylon vases 03.772-03.782] according to Warren's records: Bt. in Paris. All the Dipylon vases were said to have been found together, and were certainly found in Athens. [Also in Warren's records is the following note]: "I had seen them in a garden in Athens." J.M. [John Marshall]); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, March 24,1903