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Wine cup (skyphos) with Goddess emerging between two Pans

Greek
Classical Period
about 450 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens

Medium/Technique Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions Height: 23 cm (9 1/16 in.); diameter: 23 cm (9 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number01.8032
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsVessels

Catalogue Raisonné Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 100.
DescriptionSide A: Goddess emerging between two Pans.
Side B: Similarly dressed female with thyrsos and kantharos between two dancing Pans. Repaired on side A.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Alfred Bourguignon collection; by 1901: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: bought privately from the collection of Alfred Bourguignon. Bourguignon's label [on the vase to indicate provenience]: Vico Equense); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, December 1901