Amphora (Storage Jar) by Ancient Greek
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Amphora (Storage Jar)

Ancient Greek · 530-520 BCE

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Private Collection, Switzerland, by 1962 [this and the following according to correspondence with Dietrich von Bothmer dated July 7, 1980, copy in curatorial object file]; Elie Borowski (1913–2003), Toronto, Quebec and Basel, Switzerland, by 1974; Merrill C. Rueppel (1925– 2011), Needham, MA, September 1977 [according to incoming object receipt and correspondence in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1980.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, The Human Figure in Early Greek Art, A Preview, Part One, Gallery 101A, September 1, 1988 – May 24, 1989.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 155, April 20, 1994 - October 2003; May 2004- July 2009; September 2009- February 6, 2012.
  • Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Art Museum, The Centaur’s Smile: The Human Animal in Early Greek Art, October 11, 2003 – January 18, 2004; Museum of Fine Arts Houston, February 22, 2004– May 16, 2004.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, A Case for Wine: From King Tut to Today, Regenstein Hall, July 11 – September 20, 2009.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Dionysos Unmasked: Ancient Sculpture and Early Prints, Gallery 150 and 154, July 31, 2015 - February 15, 2016.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 151, November 11, 2012 - June 30, 2015; February 23, 2016 - present.

Literature

Published references

  • Joan Mertens, Attic White-Ground: Its Development on Shapes Other Than Lekythoi (PhD dissertation, New York, 1977) iv, Addenda and Corrigenda, to p. 56, C.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report: 1979-80 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1980), p. 31 (ill.).
  • John Griffiths Pedley, “Greek Art” in Museum Studies: Ancient Art at The Art Institute of Chicago 20, no. 1 (1994), pp. 40-41 (ill.).
  • J.M. Padget, ed., The Centaur’s Smile: The Human Animal in Early Greek Art (New haven: Yale University Press, 2003) 246-8, no. 57.
  • Emma Aston, Mixanthropoi, Animal-Human Hybrid Deities in Greek Religion (Liège: Centre International d'Étude de la Religion Grecque Antique, 2011), p. 289, fig. 38.
  • 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), p. 33.

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