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Alabastron (Container for Scented Oil)
Ancient Eastern Mediterranean · late 6th-early 3rd century BCE
Provenance
Ownership history
- Azeez Khayat (1875-1943), New York City; sold to Theodore W. and Frances S. Robinson, Chicago, 1928 [correspondence in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1942.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Glass, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Robinson Collection, June 28, 1940 –January 1, 1941.
Literature
Published references
- Wanda Odell, "Ancient Glass: The Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Robinson Collection, Gallery 5A, The Art Institute of Chicago," 1940, unpublished catalogue in curatorial object file, Art Institute of Chicago.
- Karen B. Alexander, "From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago," in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), pp. 31-32, fig.16.
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