Scenes of brides such as this are basically variants of those showing women in their domestic interiors. The nuptial representations are distinguished by objects that are specific to weddings. In this scene, the loutrophoros carried by the woman at left is special. Loutrophoroi contained water for the nuptial bath; they were also used as grave-markers for women who died unmarried.
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Side A: seated bride playing instrument.
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Title:Terracotta lebes gamikos (round-bottomed bowl with handles and stand used in weddings)
Artist:Attributed to the Washing Painter
Period:Classical
Date:ca. 430–420 BCE
Culture:Greek, Attic
Medium:Terracotta; red-figure
Dimensions:H. 20 1/8 in. (51.1 cm) diameter 8 3/4 in. (22.2 cm)
Classification:Vases
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1907
Object Number:07.286.35a, b
From Athens (Beazley 1942, p, 742, no. 1)
Reputedly, private collection, Athens, Greece; [until 1907, with Jean P. Lambros, Athens]; acquired in 1907, purchased from J.P. Lambros.
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Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. pp. 102, 244, pl. 84a, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Beazley, John D. 1963[1942]. Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, Vols. 1 and 2, 2nd ed. p. 1126, no. 1, 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. 453, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1992. Vol. 6: Kentauroi-Oiax. "Nike," p. 880, no. 361, pl. 587, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.
Sgourou, Marina. 1994. "Attic Lebetes Gamikoi." Ph.D. Diss. p. 281, fig. R42. University of Michigan.
Reeder, Ellen D., Sally Humphreys, Prof. Mary R. Lefkowitz, Francois Lissarrague, Prof. Margot Schmidt, Prof. H. Alan Shapiro, Christianne Sourvinou-Inwood, Prof. Andrew F. Stewart, Froma Zeitlin, Carol Benson, and Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway. 1995. "Women in Classical Greece." Pandora: Women in Classical Greece. Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery.
Winkler, Hannelore. 1999. Lutrophorie: ein Hochzeitskult auf attischen Vasenbilder. pp. 52–4, Freiburg im Breisgau: Hochschul Verlag.
Bundrick, Sheramy. 2005. Music and Image in Fifth-century Athens. fig. 105, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Oakley, John H. 2020. A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases. p. 198, fig. 9.9, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin 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 pp. 14–15, fig. 5, Monte Compatri (RM): Edizioni Espera.
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