Danaids2.0099

Danaids2.0099_Lalique

JSTOR / ARTSTOR
OGCMA s.v. "Danaids"

Rene Lalique (1860-1945), "Danaïdes" (1926), colorless opalescent glass vase, 16.5 x 15.5 cm diameter, Corning Museum of Glass accession no. 2011.3.359.

In a mold-pressed and acid-etched glass vase, six roughly identical nude female figures pour water from hydria mounted on their shoulders.

The image at right is derived from the JSTOR site.

Opaline glass vase with relief depictions of nude women pouring water from urns, against a black background

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.