Water pot
Category
Ceramics
Date
530 BC - 500 BC
Materials
Ceramic
Measurements
470 x 350 x 290 mm
Collection
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 532412
Summary
Water pot or Hydria, black-figured. Apollo, with Leto, Artemis, Hermes, goddess, and Poseidon. On the shoulder, warrior leaving home, with chariot. Much restored. Late 6th century B.C. 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.