Dish with Seated and Flying Eros Figures

Place of OriginApulia, Italy

Date375-350 BCE

DimensionsH (to highest knob): 7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm); H (to rim): 4 23/32 in. (12.0 cm); Diam (rim): 15 7/8 in.; Diam (foot): 5 29/32 in. (15.0 cm)

MediumRed Figure: Wheel-thrown, slip-decorated earthenware with applied details

ClassificationCeramics

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

Object number

1967.137

Not on View

DescriptionCircular terracotta dish with a flat rim. Interior: Seated Eros holding an open box and a ball. Side A: Eros carrying an open box and a filleted wreath, approaching an altar. Side B: Flying Eros with an open box, ball, and fillets.

Label TextThis South Italian red-figure dish from the 4th century BCE depicts Eros in a series of scenes, including a central figure holding an open box and ball. On the sides, Eros approaches an altar carrying a filleted wreath and appears flying with symbolic objects.Published ReferencesMünzen and Medaillen A.G., Auktion 34, Basel, 6. Mai 1967, pp. 96-97, pl. 64, no. 184.

Riefstahl, Rudolph M., "Greek Vases," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 11, 1968, p. 47, repr.

Luckner, Kurt T., "Greek Vases: Shapes and Uses, The Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 15, 1972, p. 81, figs. 29, 30.

Toledo Museum of Art, Guide to the Collections, Toledo, 1976, p. 11, fig. 4.

Schneider-Hermann, G., Apulian Red-figured Paterae with flat or knobbed handles, London, University of London, Institute of Classical Studies, Bulletin Supplement no. 34, 1977, p. 45.

Trendall, A. D., and Alexander Cambitoglou, The Red-figured Vases of Apulia. Volume II: Late Apulian, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982, p. 840, no. 26/468.

Luckner, Kurt T., in The Art of South Italy: Vases from Magna Graecia, Richmond, 1982, pp. 103-105, no. 31.

Boulter, Cedric G., and Kurt T. Luckner, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Toledo Museum of Art, fasc. 2, U.S.A., fasc. 20, Mainz, 1984, pls. 96 and 97.

Hurschmann, Rolf, Symposienszenen auf unteritalischen Vasen, Wurzburg, 1985, p. 108, 174, taf. 13.

Exhibition HistoryThe Art of South Italy: Vases from Magna Graecia. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (May 12-Aug. 8, 1982); Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa (Nov. 20, 1982 - Jan. 9, 1983); The Detroit Institute of Arts (Feb. 7 - April 10, 1983); no. 31.