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Hadra Hydria

ArtistAttributed to the Tatillon Painter

Datelate 3rd century BCE

MediumTerracotta, brown-black gloss, and golden buff slip

Dimensionsheight, width, and depth: 13 1/2 × 9 × 7 in. (34.29 × 22.86 × 17.78 cm)
diameter (exterior rim): 5 1/8 in. (13.03 cm)
diameter (interior rim): 3 1/4 in. (8.26 cm)
height and diameter (foot): 1 3/4 × 3 7/8 in. (4.45 × 9.86 cm)

ClassificationsCeramics

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hanes

Object numberG.79.6.15

On View

On view

ProvenanceProvenience unkown. [Mathias Komor, New York] [1]; Mr. Gordon Hanes (1916–1995) and Mrs. Helen Copenhaver “Copey” Hanes (1917–2013), Winston-Salem, NC, by 1969; on extended loan to The Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1969–1974; given to NCMA, 1979.

[1] Mentioned in a letter from Gordon Hanes to Peggy Jo Kirby dated August 23, 1974.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.

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