Fragment from Red-Figure Oinochoe (Wine Jug) or Hydria (Water Jar): Woman Holding Box (c. 425–420 BCE): Art, History and Details

Fragment from Red-Figure Oinochoe (Wine Jug) or Hydria (Water Jar): Woman Holding Box (c. 425–420 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Shuvalov Painter (Greek, Attic, active c. 440–410 BCE).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The relatively large eyes and head of this seated woman are characteristic of figures painted by the Shuvalov Painter, a painter known to have painted numerous small vases during the mid- to late fifth century BC. Along with many mythological subjects, the Shuvalov Painter often showed women in domestic settings, as here; the box or chest she holds could be a bridal gift.

Object facts

• Title: Fragment from Red-Figure Oinochoe (Wine Jug) or Hydria (Water Jar): Woman Holding Box
• Date: c. 425–420 BCE
• Creator attribution: Shuvalov Painter (Greek, Attic, active c. 440–410 BCE)
• Culture: Greek, Attic
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: ceramic
• Dimensions: Overall: 0.4 cm (3/16 in.)
• Collection: GR - Greek
• Department: Greek and Roman Art
• Accession number: 1915.533.d

A detail from the museum

The Shuvalov Painter is named after the former owner of an amphora now in the Hermitage.

Collection credit

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust

Further reading listed by the museum

• Beazley Archive. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive, n.d.
• Beazley, J. D. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963.
• Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971.

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