Ure Museum | Database

cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/REDMG:1951.140.1

Accession_Number

REDMG:1951.140.1

Shape

Hydria

Shape_description

Broad rim, slightly convex on upper surface, ridged at the outside edge, with overhanging lip; neck, concave in profile, broadens to a nearly flat shoulder that curves sharply to an ovoid body, which narrows sharply at the bottom, where it is joined to a moulded pedestal foot with a splayed base and concave underside; upper part of foot has tapering straight sides; the profile of the base is decorated with two ridges. Two incurving horizontal handles, round in sectiona, are attached to the upper third of the body; a vertical handle, also round in section, emerges from the top of the neck and curves down to the lower part of the shoulder.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Apulian

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

7.5YR 7/6

Decoration

Upper surface of rim reserved, black ridge, and outer edge of lip decorated with a wave pattern to right; black below lip, on neck and on handles except forward handle attachments (on horizontal handles) decorated with rays; reserved patches beneath horizontal handles. Lower part of neck decorated at front with a short laurel wreath, to left, between two narrow reserved bands. Beneath the figural scene is a groundline comprised of a frieze of alternating maeanders (three) and saltire squares (one). Narrow reserved line at join with base, bottom edge of base, and underside. The figural scene is framed between a tendril, above the left handle, and a larger vegetal ornament, from which emerges a lotus bud. A Youth stands in 3/4-view to the right. He is nude, except for drapery slung over his bent right arm and held in his lowered left hand, and a white taenia on his head. He also holds a staff in his slightly upraised right hand. At centre is a bird (crane), seated in a perirhanterion (basin), supported by a fluted, tapered column, with a dotted capital, on a two-stepped base. The steps are decorated with small black spots and thin diagonal lines that suggest a marbled appearance. On the other side of the perirhanterion stands a woman, in 3/4-view to the left, with her weight on her right leg and her left leg relaxed. She wears a belted, sleeveless chiton, double bracelets on each wrist, a beaded necklace, and a spiked stephane, as well as a short pony tail. She extends her right hand to the bird and holds a box, decorated on the sides with black spots and lines, and three white spots on top, in her slightly upraised right hand. Above the bird is a rectangular frame (sometimes called a window but perhaps a votive plaque); above the box is a cogwheel. Most of the reserved areas are darkened with red wash, and the jewelry and other details in added white.

Inscriptions

Condition

The black surface, slightly iridescent, is slightly chipped at the back. The red surfaces are eroded, especially on the woman's face, and stained, especially on the upper surface of the rim, the laurel wreath, and some of the figural scene.

Technique/Style

Red figure; added white

Provenance

Period

Late Classical

Date

380-360

Dating_details

Artist

Painter of Karlsruhe B9; Tarporley Painter

Attribution

Trendall and Cambitoglou, 2.137 and 2.139.32, class this hydria among the early vases attributed to the Painter of Karlsruhe B9, a follower of the Tarporley Painter

Image

2003.93.0222.jpg	Apulian hydria with a youth and a woman on either side of a perirrhanterion, on which a swan is perched.
2003.93.0223.jpg	Back view of an Apulian red-figure hydria, showing the handles.
2003.93.0224.jpg	Left side view of an Apulian red-figure hydria.
2004.99.0804.jpg	Front view of an Apulian red-figure hydria, showing a nude youth, a bird and a woman.
2004.99.0805.jpg	Front view of an Apulian red-figure hydria, showing a nude youth, a bird and a woman.
2004.99.0806.jpg	Front view of an Apulian red-figure hydria, showing a nude youth, a bird and a woman.
2004.99.0807.jpg	Front view of an Apulian red-figure hydria, showing a nude youth, a bird and a woman.
2004.99.0808.jpg	Front view of part of an Apulian red-figure hydria, showing a nude youth, a bird and a woman.
2004.99.0809.jpg	Front view of part of an Apulian red-figure hydria, showing a nude youth.
2004.99.0810.jpg	Front view of part of an Apulian red-figure hydria, showing a nude youth.
2004.99.0811.jpg	Front view of part of an Apulian red-figure hydria, showing a woman.
2004.99.0812.jpg	Front view of part of an Apulian red-figure hydria, showing a bird and a woman.
2004.99.0813.jpg	Front view of part of an Apulian red-figure hydria, showing a bird and a woman.
2004.99.0814.jpg	Front view of part of an Apulian red-figure hydria, showing a bird and a woman.
2004.99.0815.jpg	Front view of an Apulian red-figure hydria, showing a handle.
2004.99.0816.jpg	Front view of an Apulian red-figure hydria.
2004.99.0817.jpg	Front view of an Apulian red-figure hydria, showing a handle.
2004.99.0818.jpg	Oblique view of part of an Apulian red-figure hydria on its side, showing the base.
2004.99.0819.jpg	Oblique view of part of an Apulian red-figure hydria, showing the laurel decoration on the front of the neck.
2004.99.0820.jpg	Oblique view of part of an Apulian red-figure hydria, showing the mouth.