A succession of misadventures brought Peleus, the future father of the hero Achilles, to cower in a treetop. While a guest of King Akastos, Peleus became the target of the queen's unrequited love. Rebuffed, she accused him of trying to seduce her. The enraged king lured Peleus to the deserted slopes of Mount Pelion and left him unarmed against wild beasts until the gods provided a magic knife.
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Title:Terracotta oinochoe (jug)
Artist:Attributed to the Painter of London B 620
Period:Archaic
Date:ca. 520 BCE
Culture:Greek, Attic
Medium:Terracotta; black-figure, white-ground
Dimensions:H. 9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm) H. with handle 11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm)
Classification:Vases
Credit Line:Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1946
Object Number:46.11.7
From Vulci (de Witte 1837, p. 112, no. 196)
Before1837, found in a tomb in Vulci, northern Lazio, Italy; collection of Lucien Bonaparte (1775-1840), Prince de Canino et Musignano; until 1849, collection of William Williams Hope (1802 – 1855), Rushton Hall, Northamptonshire, UK; until 1923, collection of Ludwig Mond (1839-1909) and Frida Mond (née Löwenthal, 1847–1923), London; 1923-1945, collection of their son, Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett, (1868-1930) and Violet Florence Mabel Mond (née Goetze), Lady Melchett (1867-1945), London; [May 14, 1946, purchased by S.B. Burney for Joseph Bummer through Sotheby’s London (lot 88)]; [May-October 1946, with Joseph Brummer, New York (P16085)]; acquired in October 1946, purchased from J. Brummer.
De Witte, Jean. 1837. Description d’une collection de vases peints et bronzes antiques provenant des fouilles de l’Étrurie. no. 196, p. 112, Paris: Impremerie de Firmin Didot Frères et Cie.
Christie's, London. 1849. Catalogue of the Beautiful Collection of Pictures...of William Williams Hope, Esq., also, his Very Choice and Rare Collection of Etruscan Vases, June 14, 1849. no. 50, p. 6.
Birch, Samuel. 1849. "II. Museographisches. Vasen des Hen. Hope u.a.m." Archäologischer Anzeiger, VII (10): col. 100.
1904. Exhibition of Ancient Greek Art no. 62, p. 115, pls. XCVII, XCVIII, London: Burlington Fine Arts Club.
Strong, Eugénie. 1928. Catalogue of the Greek & Roman antiques in the possession of the Right Honourable Lord Melchett ... at Melchet Court and 35 Lowndes Square. no. 44, pl. XL, London: Oxford University Press.
Milne, Marjorie J. 1947. "Peleus and Akastos." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5(10): pp. 255–60.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. pp. 62, 204, pl. 44e, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Beazley, John D. 1956. Attic Black-figure Vase-painters. p. 434, no. 3, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Beazley, John D. 1971. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters [2nd edition]. p. 187, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
von Bothmer, Dietrich. 1978. Antichnoe iskusstvo iz muzeia Metropoliten, Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki: Katalog vystavki. no. 35, Moscow: Sovetskii Khudozhnik.
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1994. Vol. 7: Oidipous-Theseus. "Peleus," p. 253, no. 9, pl. 183, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.
Mitchell, Alexandre G. 2009. Greek Vase-painting and the Origins of Visual Humour. pp. xviii, 96 n. 2, 122 n. 91, 285, New York: Cambridge University Press.
Arbeid, Barbara, Elena Ghisellini, and Maria Rosaria Luberto. 2022. Ho Pais Kalos : Scritti Di Archeologia Offerti a Mario Iozzo per Il suo Sessantacinquesimo Compleanno p. 264, n. 44, Monte Compatri (RM): Edizioni Espera.
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