Water pot
Category
Ceramics
Date
525 BC
Materials
Ceramic
Measurements
470 x 400 x 300 mm
Collection
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 532411
Summary
Water pot or Hydria, black-figured painted on the body with Iolaos in armour holding a Herakles’s club while he fights the Nemean lion, watched by Athena. and on the shoulder with a scene of two chariots racing. Beazley Vase Number 390 American Journal of Archaeology, no. 82 (1978), 14, FIG.1A, 15, FIG.1B (BD); Jackson-Stops 1985, cat. no. 239 Old label: Water pot or Hydria, black-figured. Herakles and the Lion, with Athena and Iolaos looking on. On the shoulder, chariot race. About 525 BC.(CHA/C/23). 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.