Water pot
Category
Ceramics
Date
530 BC - 520 BC
Materials
Ceramic
Measurements
440 x 370 x 340 mm
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Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 532410
Summary
Athenian (Greek) black figure hydria – end of 6th Century BC. Depicts a man on a chariot accompanied by Athena and Hermes and a woman to the front of the horses. The shoulder of the vase depicts Herakles wrestling the Nemean lion, his mantle and club hanging above, shield? And quiver on the ground. To the left a seated Athean holds out her helmet and to the right there is a seated bearded man with a cloak over his arm (Lolaos?). The vase has a circular base, two small carrying handles on the main body and a pouring handle on the rim. The back of the vase is plain. George Hammond Lucy, having been given by Lord Brooke of Warwick, a catalogue of Greek Vases and other artefacts to be sold in London, purchased some of the vases which are now in the Library. On 12 July 1838 he paid to Messrs. Brown, Scagliola Works, University Street, London, the sum of £125 for four vases. Some of the other vases were bought in Italy in 1842.
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust by Sir Montgomerie Fairfax-Lucy (1896 – 1965), two years after the death of his father, Sir Henry Ramsay-Fairfax, 3rd Bt (1870 – 1944), with Charlecote Park and its chief contents, in 1946.