Wedding Vessel, Lebes Gamikos, with Winged Sphinxes
Artist
Unknown Greek
CultureGreek (Attic)
Titles
- Wedding Vessel, Lebes Gamikos, with Winged Sphinxes
Date560–550 BC
MediumTerracotta with slip
Dimensions15 × 15 (diameter) in.
Credit LineGift of Miss Annette Finnigan
Object number34.129
Not on view
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Exhibition History"The Horse in Art," MFAH, Jan. 31–Mar 8, 1970.
"Ten Centuries that Shaped the West," The Rice Institute for the Arts, Houston, October 15, 1970–January 3, 1971; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, February 3–April 1, 1971; Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, May 16–July 11, 1971.
Published References Beazley, J. D. Paralipomena: additions to Attic black-figure vase-painters and to Attic red-figure vase-painters (second edition). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. Pg. 51. Hoffman, Herbert. Ten Centuries that Shaped the West: Greek and Roman Art in Texas Collections. Houston: Institute for the Arts, Rice University, 1971. Fig. 166. Moore, Mary B. "Attic Black Figure from Samothrace." Hesperia 44 (1975): 234-250. Pl. 53, fig. a.
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325–150 BC
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