Black Fluted Hydria with painted pendants on neck and raised ornamentation on lip
Date4th-3rd Century BC
CultureApulian
MediumClay
ClassificationCeramics
Provenancecollected by Luigi Palma di Cesnola (American Consul to Cyprus, 1865-1876) from Cyprus; purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art; sale, The Anderson Galleries, New York, March 30-31, 1928; purchased by John Ringling; bequest to The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1936
Credit LineBequest of John Ringling, 1936
Object numberSN28.836
A hydria is a vessel for carrying water. In Athens red-figured decoration gradually gave way to plainer, black-glazed wares in the fourth century B.C. Many of the elegant black-glazed vases imitate the shapes and details of more valuable metal vases and mirror the sheen of silver vessels in their glossy surfaces. How far in sophistication Mediterranean culture traveled from the simplicity and forthrightness of Bronze Age Cypriote while retaining the values of elegance and utility.
On View
On viewLocation
- Museum of Art, Gallery 17, Wall North, Case, East
Collections
Overall (rim): 6 3/4 in. (17.1 cm)
900-800 BCE
1100-1000 BCE
5th-4th Century BC
1050–900 BCE
620-590 BCE
8th century BCE