Oinochoe (Pitcher)

Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

end of 4th century BCE

Attributed to the Mattinata Painter
Greek; Apulia, Italy

This vase depicts a woman wearing a chiton, a himation and a white sakkos (hat) sitting on an elaborate four-tier rock, holding a phiale (dish) out in her right hand and a large bunch of grapes back in her left. By her legs is a large and elaborate tambourine; to the far right is an elaborate sprouting floral.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

Artist: Mattinata Painter
Title: Oinochoe (Pitcher)
Place: Greece (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 300 BCE–201 BCE
Medium: terracotta, red-figure
Dimensions: 38.1 × 13.9 × 13.6 cm (15 × 15 1/2 × 5 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago
Reference Number: 1889.88
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Art Institute of Chicago, Preliminary Catalogue of Metal Work, Graeco-Italian Vases, and Antiquities, December 9, 1889 (Chicago: Early and Halla Printing Company, 1889), p. 40, no. 332.
Arthur Dale Trendall and Alexander Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978), p. 1029, no. 67, plate 398,5.

The Art Institute of Chicago, The Human Figure in Greek and Roman Art: From the Permanent Collection (Part 2), Gallery 120A, January 13, 1989-February 21, 1990.

Pio Marinangeli, Rome; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1889.

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