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Hadra Hydria

Datelate 3rd century BCE
MediumTerracotta, brown-black gloss, and golden buff slip
DimensionsH. 15 1/2 x Diam 7 1/2 in. (39.4 x 19.1 cm)
ClassificationsCeramics
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hanes
Object numberG.79.6.15
On View
On view
ProvenanceWith Mathias Komor, New York; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hanes, Winston-Salem, NC, by 1969; on extended loan to The Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1969-74; given to NCMA, 1979.Published ReferencesEdgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983, illus. (b-w) 52.

Cleopatra's Egypt: Age of the Ptolemies, 305-30 B.C. (exhibition catalogue) (Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1988), cat. no. 119, illus.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 23.
Exhibition HistoryBrooklyn, NY, The Brooklyn Museum, “Cleopatra’s Egypt: Age of the Ptolemies, 305-30 B.C.,” October 7, 1988-January 2, 1989; Detroit, MI, The Detroit Institute of Arts, February 15-May 1, 1989; Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, in cooperation with the Staatliche Sammlung Ägyptischer Kunst, June 8-September 10, 1989, cat. no. 119, illus.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.
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