Detail View: The AMICA Library: Water Jug
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AMICA ID:
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AIC_.1911.456
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AMICA Library Year:
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1999
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Object Type:
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Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
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Creator Name:
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Unknown
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Creator Nationality:
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European; Southern European; Mediterranean
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Creator Dates/Places:
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Early Western World,Ancient Mediterranean,Ancient
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Greek (Attic)
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Creator Name:
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Leningrad Painter
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Creator Nationality:
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European; Southern European; Mediterranean
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Creator Dates/Places:
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Greek, fl. 460-450 B.C. Early Western World,Ancient Mediterranean,Ancient
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Leningrad Painter
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Title:
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Hydria (Water Jug)
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Title Type:
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preferred
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Title:
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Water Jug
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Title Type:
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alternate
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View:
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front view
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Creation Date:
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High Classical Period, 460/450 B.C.
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Creation Start Date:
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-460
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Creation End Date:
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-450
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Materials and Techniques:
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Earthenware, red-figure technique
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Classification Term:
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Vessel
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Subject Description:
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A group of five figures stand on a ground line supported by a decorative border. The pair in the middle are the focus of the composition. A garlanded youth with a himation slung around his waist and leaning on a stick in a contrived manner moves toward agirl, putting his left arm around her and grasping suggestively with his right hand toward her groin. She tilts her face towards his, puts her right arm around his neck, and seems ready to caress his ear with her left hand. The embroidery frame lends a domestic flavor to the scene, but the walking sticks suggest that the lads have come from elsewhere and are not at home.
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Creation Place:
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Europe,Greece,Greater Athens,Athens
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Dimensions:
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H.: 42.4 cm (16-3/4 in.)W.: 37.6 cm (14-3/4 in.)Diam. at mouth: 10.3 cm (4-1/16 in.)
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Art Institute of Chicago
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Owner Location:
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Chicago, Illinois, USA
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ID Number:
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1911.456
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Credit Line:
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Martin A. Ryerson
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Rights:
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Context:
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Intimate scenes of couples kissing are unusual in Greek art, and this scene is unique in the work of the Leningrad Painter. Women of the Athenian upper class were never shown participating in such activity in the fifth century B.C., indicating that the participants depicted here are probably courtesans.
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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AIC_.E24188.TIF
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