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Amphora (Storage Jar)
Ancient Etruscan · 530-520 BCE
Provenance
Ownership history
- T. Fujita, Tokyo, Japan and Lugano, Switzerland in the 1970's; in the collection of the Kurashiki Ninagawa Museum, Kurashiki, Okayama County, Japan, by 1980, then to the Kyoto Girishia Roma Bijutsukan, Kyoto, Japan, until about 2007; sold by Mr. Akira Ninagawa at aution through Christie's New York, New York, June 4, 2008, lot 225, to Phoenix Ancient Art, New York, New York; purchased by the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois in 2009.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Zürich Archäologischen Institut der Universität, Das Tier in der Antike, 400 Werke ägyptischer, griechischer, etruskischer, und römischer Kunst aus privatem und öffentlichem Besitz, September 21-November 17, 1974.
- Kurashiki Ninagawa Museum, Kurashiki, Okayama County, Japan, by 1980, then to the Kyoto Girishia Roma Bijutsukan, Kyoto, Japan, until about 2007.
- International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, October 17-23, 2008, Phoenix Ancient Art, Stand B-15.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 156, 2009-February 2012.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 152, November 11, 2012-present.
Literature
Published references
- Hansjörg Bloesch, Das Tier in der Antike, 400 Werke ägyptischer, griechischer, etruskischer, und römischer Kunst aus privatem und öffentlichem Besitz (Zürich, 1974), p. 53, no. 322, pl. 55, 322a and 322b.
- n.a., The Ancient and Modern Art in the Kurashiki Museum (Tokyo, 1980), pl. 60 (A).
- Erika Simon, The Kurashiki Ninagawa Museum: Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities (Mainz on Rhine: Philipp von Zabern, 1982), pp. 155, 182-4, no. 115 (illus).
- Anja Drukker, “The Ivy Painter in Friesland,” in Enthousiasmos: Essays on Greek and Related Pottery Presented to J. M. Hemelrijk (Amsterdam: Allard Pierson Museum, 1986), pp. 39-48, no. 41.
- Ingrid Werner, Dionysos in Etruria: The Ivy Leaf Group, Skrifter Utgivna au Svenska Institutet I Rome, Acta Instituti Romani Regni Seuciae, 4, LVII (Stockholm: Paul Astroms Forlag, 2005), p. 31, pl. 27, no. 4/6/6.1.
- Phoenix Ancient Art, sale cat. 27 (Geneva, Switzerland, 2008), pp. 38-39, 104, no. 27.
- Christie’s New York, Antiquities,sale cat. (Christie's, New York, June 4, 2008), lot 225.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 2008- 09 (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), pp. 19, 25 (ill.).
- Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New York: Yale University Press, 2012), pp. 58-59 (cat. 9), 111.
- Art Institute of Chicago, The Essential Guide, (Art Institute of Chicago, 2013), p. 66.
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