Loutrophoros with Wedding Ceremony

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ArtistAttributed to the Washing Painter(Greek (Attic))Greek (Attic)

CultureGreek (Attic)

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Loutrophoros with Wedding Ceremony

Date425–420 BC

MediumTerracotta with slip

Dimensionsheight × diameter: 12 7/8 × 4 7/8 inches (32.7 × 12.4 cm.)
diameter at base: 3 5/16 inches (8.4 cm.)

Credit LineGift of Miss Annette Finnigan

Object number37.12

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Provenance[Theodore Zoumpoulakis, Athens, by 1935]; purchased by Miss Annette Finnigan (1873–1940), Houston, 1935–1937; given to MFAH, 1937.
Exhibition History"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.

"Pandora's Box: Women in Classical Greece," at The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Nov. 5, 1995–Jan. 7, 1996; Dallas Museum of Art, Feb. 4–Mar. 31, 1996; Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig, Basel, Apr. 28–June 23, 1996 (LN: 95.11).
Published References Beazley, J. D. Attic Red-figure Vase-painters. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963. Pg. 1127, no 13. --. Paralipomena: additions to Attic black-figure vase-painters and to Attic red-figure vase-painters. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. Pg 332. Hoffman, Herbert. Ten Centuries that Shaped the West: Greek and Roman Art in Texas Collections. Houston: Institute for the Arts, Rice University, 1971. Fig. 183. Reeder, Ellen D. Pandora: women in classical Greece. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery in association with Princeton University Press, 1995. Fig. 23, pp. 163-165. Sabetai, Viktoria. "The Washing Painter: a contribution to the wedding and genre iconography in the second half of the fifth century B.C." PhD diss., University of Cincinnati, 1993. Vol 1, pp. 148, 162-168; vol 2, pg. 17 no. LA4, pl. 6. Sutton, Robert F. "The Interaction Between Men and Women Portrayed on Attic Red-Figure Pottery." PhD diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1981. Pp. 190, 191, 193, 248, no. W 43. Vermeule, Cornelius C. Roman Imperial Art in Greece and Asia Minor. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1968. Fig. 164, pg. 401.

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