Recent Acquisitions

         



Attic Red-Figures Stemless Kylix (N.503)
Stemless red-figure kylix (ca. 460 BCE; D. 14 cm; formerly in a British collection since1969). The tondo carries a youth reclining on a couch, holding out his own stemless kylix. The style seems reminiscent of the group around Makron.
terracotta lamp mold (N.507)
Terracotta mould for making the upper part of an Ephesian lamp (1st century CE; L. 11.6 cm; from the Meyn collection, Amsterdam, since the 1950s.)
Cypriote "milk bowl" (N.508)
Cypriote Milk Bowl (ca. 1400-1375 BCE; 16.5 cm; formerly in the Gyorgy Kepes collection since 1928). The bowl is decorated with a thick white slip with the usual brown bands imitating "leather" straps.
terracotta hydrophoros (N.502)
Terracotta statuette of a woman carrying a hydria (early 4th c. BCE; H. 23 cm; formerly in a European collection since the 1950s). She preserves much of her original paint.
Mycenaean terracotta "phi" figurine (N.509)
Mycenaean Phi figurine (14th c. BCE; H. 9.9 cm; from a British collection since the early twentieth century). See E. French, "The Development of Mycenaean Terracotta Figurines," Annual of the British School of Archaeology at Athens 71, 1966, 101-87, esp. p. 109, fig. 1, & pp. 116-23, pl. 16a no. 39451 from Mycenae.
red-figure pelike by the Tyszkiewicz Painter (N.510)
Medium sized red-figure pelike by the Tyszkiewicz Painter (ca. 470 BCE; H. 26.7 cm; published in Beazley, ARV2 1643.58bis [1963]; and no. 275164 in the Beazley Archive online database). On the obverse, an adult Athenian citizen stands with his house dog; on the reverse, Eros flies in to capture a hare. The vase was purchased in memory of Paul Rehak from funds donated by Friends of Paul Rehak and by the Department of Classics.
South Italian Lekanis (N.505)
A red-figure South Italian lekanis with lid, the Winterthur Group from Apulia, 350-325 BCE (D. 18.30 cm; formerly in the collection of David Gibson, United Kingdom, since the 1930s). The lid is decorated with the heads of two women separated by palmettes.
South Italian Plate (N.504)
Red-figure South Italian plate decorated rather richly with a woman's head in the center surrounded by three bands of "waves," an ivy tendril, and short tongues (early to mid 4th c. BCE; D. 17 cm; formerly in a Belgian private collection since 1970).