Description
The seated man raising a vessel to his lips, a masterpiece of Early Greek sculpture, displays the typical Geometric style of modeling figures as simple, linear forms that enclose open space.
Conservation
Date
Description
Narrative
11/26/1958
Treatment
cleaned; coated
11/14/1978
Treatment
cleaned; other
11/14/1978
Examination
examined for condition
6/02/1986
Loan Consideration
examined for loan
10/05/1988
Treatment
cleaned
8/10/1992
Loan Consideration
examined for loan
12/20/2000
Treatment
other
Exhibitions
The Gods Delight: The Human Figure in Classical Bronze. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. 1988-1989.
From Pasture to Polis: Art in the Age of Homer. Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri - Columbia, Columbia. 1993.
Provenance
[Said to be from the Alpheios Valley]; Joseph Brummer; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
