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Amphora (Storage Jar)

Ixion Painter · 340-330 BCE

Provenance

Ownership history

Said to be found in Capua, 1883 [Old Register at the Art Institute of Chicago]. Augusto Mele, Naples, Italy; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago through J.C. Fletcher as agent, 1889; price reimbursed by Charles Hutchinson and Philip D. Armour, 1889.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

The Art Institute of Chicago, Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 152A, November 11, 2012 - November 9, 2018.

Literature

William M.R. French, Notes [on a] journey to Europe with Mr. and Mrs. C.L. Hutchinson starting from New York Sat'y Mch. 9, 1889- , p. 23 (no. 2).
Art Institute of Chicago, Preliminary Catalogue of Metal Work, Graeco-Italian Vases, and Antiquities, December 9, 1889 (Chicago: Early & Halla Printing Company, 1889), p. 44, no. 351.
H.B. Walters, Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum Volume II: Black-Figured Vases (London: British Museum, 1893), no. 484.
A.D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania Campania and Sicily, vol. 1 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967), pp. 335-340, Pl. 132 1-3 (before cleaning).
K. Schauenburg, “Frauen im Fenster,” RM 79 (1972), pp. 1-15, esp. 7-8, pl. 13, 2.
A.D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania Campania and Sicily: Second Supplement (BICS Suppl. 31; London, 1973), p. 205.
A.D. Trendall, The Red-figured Vases of Lucania Campania and Sicily: Third Supplement (BICS Suppl. 41; London, 1983), p. 157.
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC), I (Artemis, 1981-2009), pp. 612-613, no. 406, I.2: p. 491, no. 406.
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. 18.

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