Donor: Phoebe Apperson Hearst / Culture or time period: Classical Civilizations / Loans: S1982-1983 #3: Crocker Art Museum (October 20, 1982–March 28, 1983) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

Start Over Donor Phoebe Apperson Hearst Culture or time period Classical Civilizations Loans S1982-1983 #3: Crocker Art Museum (October 20, 1982–March 28, 1983)

Hearst Museum object titled Column krater, accession number 8-361, described as Corinthian black-figure column-krater; mended, but no repainting; some original dents; above: A, battle; 2 pairs of fighting warriors, flying bird at r.; B, cavalcade; 3 pairs of horsemen moving to left; beneath handles, siren to right with head turned back; below: animal frieze; panther, goat, swan (to r.), lion (to l.), goat (to r.); broad glaze band; rays at base; on top of rim, scale pattern; on handle-plates, maeander. Notice: Image restricted due to its potentially sensitive nature. Contact Museum to request access.

Hearst Museum object titled Cup, accession number 8-3216, described as Attic Red-figure kylix; put together from fragments; foot modern; Interior: youth, with chlamys and akontion, standing to left; border of maeander and saltire squares; A, two youths, one with chlamys, strigil and staff or akontion, the other with akontion; B, similar, but both figures given strigils; palmette complexes at handles.

Hearst Museum object titled Flask, accession number 8-353, described as Ceramic flask with black slip decoration depicting two seated lions. Height: 20.7 cm, Diameter: 10.3 cm

Hearst Museum object titled Kylix (band cup), accession number 8-3497, described as Attic black-figure band-cup; put together from many fragments; some restoration in plaster interior: trace of motif (dot-in-circle?); A-B, siren to left between grazing stags; at handles, upright palmettes. H., 14.7; D., 21.9 cm

Hearst Museum object titled Kylix (lip cup), accession number 8-358, described as Attic black-figure lip-cup; put together from many fragments, no repainting; interior: reserved tondo with brownish-red ring, another ring inside lip; A-B: lip-zone, Theseus and the Minotaur; handle-zone: nonsense inscription; at each handle, upright palmettes.

Hearst Museum object titled Neck-amphora, accession number 8-3853, described as Attic black-figure neck-amphora; A; Theseus slaying the Minotaur, between Ariadne (?) and a youth; B: warrior greaving, helmet at feet, between a youth with scepter and a woman with two spears and, at her feet, a shield on neck, lotus palmette; shoulder, tongues; below pictures, lotus frieze, rays; at handles, lotus-palmette complexes

Hearst Museum object titled Oinochoe, accession number 8-47, described as Attic plastic oinochoe; large chip in base, otherwise intact; woman’s head; added red paint for hair and lips; no incision in eyes.

Hearst Museum object titled Plastic lekythos, accession number 8-1796, described as East Greek (probably Rhodian) plastic lekythos in form of bust of young girl; orifice broken off; pinkish-buff clay; no slip; details in brownish black paint; figure wears earrings and chiton. Description from Matteucig (1951): Plastic Lekythos; height; 10.2 cm; depth 5.5 cm; width, 6.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 17). “Gorgoneion" fabric. Bust of a young man. Clay, pinkish buff; some mica particles. No slip. Sheen on surface is the result of thin wash of glaze; where applied as dark paint, the glaze, which varies from brownish to black according to thickness, is not very lustrous. Orifice broken off. For a more detailed description and excellent illustrations of this piece see Professor H. R. W. Smith's account in C.W.A., University of California, fasc. 1, p. 55 and Pl. LVII, 1a–d. For the “Gorgoneion” group of East Greek plastic vases, cf. Maximova, pp. 174–175 and Pls. XXII-XXV, especially Pl. XXIV, 95a-b; C.W.A., France, fasc. 10, Bibl. Nat., fasc. 2, pl. 93, 9–12; C.V.A., Copenhagen Mus. Nat., fasc. 2, pl. 81, 1; Albizzati, pl. 9, 112; E. R. Price, East Greek Pottery, p. 37 ff.: C.W.A., Oxford, fasc. 2, p. 85, pl. 7. British Museum no. 47.86.36, is perhaps the closest parallel to our specimen. For a full-length figure of this fabric, see H. Stuart Jones, The Sculptures of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Oxford, 1926, p. 197, pl. 76, no. 20: this piece was reviewed by Professor J. D. Beazley inJ.H.S., XLVII, 1927, p. 146 and dated to the end of the seventh century.

Hearst Museum object titled Plate, accession number 8-359, described as Attic Red-figure plate; bored for suspension, with the stripes horizontal; put together from four fragments; decorated on both sides with black and reversed stripes.