Object Title
Hydria with Aphrodite and Eros
Measurements
47.9 x 40 x 33 cm
Creation Date
second quarter of the 4th Century BCE
Credit Line
Carlos Collection of Ancient Art
Museum Name
Museum Contact
ashanle@emory.edu
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
https://collections.carlos.emory.edu/objects/6937/hydria-with-aphrodite-and-eros?ctx=81a7f96ab2d278e27d19d653e76d88e9ec925b78&idx=0
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
Older than 100 years
Provenance Information
Ex coll. Doris Seebacher, Munich, Germany. Purchased by MCCM from Robert Hecht (1919-2012) [Robert Hecht Gallery], New York, New York.
Exhibition Information
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - January 2011
Monsters, Demons & Winged Beasts: Composite Creatures in the Ancient World, Michael C. Carlos Museum, February 5 - June 19, 2011
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, June 20, 2011 - Present
Monsters, Demons & Winged Beasts: Composite Creatures in the Ancient World, Michael C. Carlos Museum, February 5 - June 19, 2011
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, June 20, 2011 - Present
Publication Information
MCCM Newsletter, March - May 2002.
MCCM Newsletter, September - November 2003.
Jennifer Chi and Jasper Gaunt, Greek Bronze Vessels from the Collection of Shelby White & Leon Levy (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2005), 22-23, catalogue 8.
Jasper Gaunt, Renee Stein, Kate Duffy, and Lindsay Turk, "Stylistic and Technical Study of a Bronze Hydria in the Michael C. Carlos Museum," in Common Ground: Archaeology, Art, Science, and Humanities. Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Boston, August 23-26, 2003, ed Carol C. Mattusch et al. (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2006), 363-67.
Louise Pratt, Eros at the Banquet: Reviewing Greek with Plato's Symposium (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011), 6-7.
MCCM Newsletter, September - November 2003.
Jennifer Chi and Jasper Gaunt, Greek Bronze Vessels from the Collection of Shelby White & Leon Levy (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2005), 22-23, catalogue 8.
Jasper Gaunt, Renee Stein, Kate Duffy, and Lindsay Turk, "Stylistic and Technical Study of a Bronze Hydria in the Michael C. Carlos Museum," in Common Ground: Archaeology, Art, Science, and Humanities. Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Boston, August 23-26, 2003, ed Carol C. Mattusch et al. (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2006), 363-67.
Louise Pratt, Eros at the Banquet: Reviewing Greek with Plato's Symposium (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011), 6-7.
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Gift or bequest expected or on loan prior to 2008
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
Purchased by museum in 2001.