Water pot
Category
Ceramics
Date
550 BC - 500 BC
Materials
Ceramic
Measurements
470 x 390 x 340 mm
Collection
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 532414
Summary
The body of the water pot (Hydria) is painted with three black-figures of Amazons each with two spears mounted on horseback with two hunting hounds while on the shoulder a fearce battle scene is depicted with helmeted warriors with spears and shields with various devices: legs, Bukranion (cattle heads), tripods and discs.Beazley Vase Number 24347. 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. Old label: Water pot or Hydria, black-figures. Mounted Amazons. On the shoulder, battle. Late 6th century.(CHA/C/26)
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.