Fragment of a Red-Figure Bell-Krater or Calyx-Krater (Mixing Vessel): Female Head (Aglauros)

Description

Broken from the upper wall of a large mixing vessel, this fragment shows the head of a woman wearing an earring and an elaborate ribbon in her hair. A faint inscription identifies her as Aglauros, a daughter of Kekrops, the mythical first king of Athens. Although worshipped in a shrine near the Acropolis, Aglauros appears quite rarely in Athenian art, usually with her sisters at the birth of Erichthonios, a future king.

Provenance

Jacob Hirsch, Geneva, Switzerland; Eileen B. Ingalls (1903-1996), Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art (?-1992); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1992-)

Fragment of a Red-Figure Bell-Krater or Calyx-Krater (Mixing Vessel): Female Head (Aglauros)

Nausicaa Painter (also known as Polygnotos III

c. 460–450 BCE

Accession Number

1992.369

Medium

ceramic

Dimensions

Overall: 6.8 x 7.5 cm (2 11/16 x 2 15/16 in.)

Classification

Ceramic

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Frances W. Ingalls