Oinochoe (shape 3, pitcher); Scene: Dionysos and his followers

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Oinochoe (shape 3, pitcher); Scene: Dionysos and his followers

Artist The Felton Painter (Greek)

Place of OriginApulia, Italy

Dateabout 375 BCE

DimensionsH: 8 1/4 in. (21.0 cm); Diam: 6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm); Diam (foot): 4 17/32 in. (11.5 cm)

MediumRed Figure: Wheel-thrown, slip-decorated earthenware

ClassificationCeramics

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1967.136

Not on View

Label TextDionysos, Greek god of wine and the theater, reclines on a couch as his wife Ariadne pours him wine. His followers surround him, including a satyr (part-man, part-goat), a maenad (“the frenzied one”; a female follower of Dionysos), and a person with dwarfism. A theater mask hangs on the wall. This delightful pitcher would have appropriately held wine.Published References

Münzen and Medaillen A.G., Auktion 34, Basel, May 6, 1967, p. 96, lot no. 183, pl. 63.

Trendall, A.D., Phylax Vases, London, 1967, (University of London, Institute of Classical Studies, Bulletin Supplement No. 19), p. 85, no. 193, pl. 13B.

Riefstahl, Rudolph M., "Greek Vases," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. II, no. 2, 1968, p. 47, repr.

Hoffman, H., Collecting Greek Antiquites, New York, 1971, p. 135, figs. 112a, 112b, and 112c.

Schauenburg, K., "Der Besorgle Marsyas," Mitteilungen des deutschen archaeologischen Institutes Roemische Abeilung, bd. 79, 1972, pp. 317-322, taf. 131, 2 and 132, 1 and 2.

Trendall, A.D., and A. Cambitoglou, The Red-figured Vases of Apulia, Oxford, 1978, vol. 1, p. 172, no. 5, and (i), 50.

Luckner, Kurt T., in The Art of South Italy, Vases from Magna Graecia, Richmond, 1982, p. 101, no. 29.

Boulter, Cedric G., and Kurt T. Luckner, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Toledo Museum of Art, fasc. 2, U.S.A., fasc. 20, Mainz, 1984, pl. 90.

Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae (LIMC), Zurich, 1981-1999, vol. III, p. 457, no. 375, repr. vol. III, p. 340.

Gazda, Elaine K., The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii: Ancient Ritual, Modern Muse, Ann Arbor, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and The University of Michigan Museum of Art, 2000, no. 71, p. 205-206, repr.

Thorn, Jed, "New Evidence for Apulian Red-Figure Production Centers," Archaeometry, vol. 52, no. 5, Oct. 2010, repr. (col.) p. 783.

Dasen, Veronique, Dwarfs in Ancient Egypt and Greece, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2013, pp. 241-242, repr. pl. 57 (2).

Exhibition History

Richmond, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Tulsa, Philbrook Art Cente; Detroit Institute of Arts, The Art of South Italy: Vases from Magna Graecia,, 1989-1990, no. 29.

Ann Arbor, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and The University of Michigan Museum of Art, The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii: Ancient Ritual, Modern Muse, 2000, no. 71.

Comparative ReferencesSee also Trendall, A.D., "The Felton Painter," In Honor of Daryl Lindsay, Melbourne, 1964, pp. 46-48.