Black Fluted Hydria with painted pendants on neck and raised ornamentation on lip
Date4th-3rd Century BC
MediumClay
DimensionsOverall: 18 × 11 1/4 × 11 3/4 in. (45.7 × 28.6 × 29.8 cm)
Overall (rim): 6 3/4 in. (17.1 cm)
Overall (rim): 6 3/4 in. (17.1 cm)
ClassificationsCeramics
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
4th-3rd Century BC
mid-3rd c. BCE
mid 3rd–3rd Century BC
mid 3rd–3rd Century BC
6th Century BC