Art Institute of Chicago
Amphora (Storage Jar)
Painter of Tarquinia RC 2984 · About 560 BCE
Provenance
Ownership history
- Munzen und Medaillen, Auction 26, Oct. 5, 1963, lot 88; purchased by Denis Van Berchem (1908-1994), Switzerland [according to Metzger / Berchem article]; heir of Van Berchem [correspondence with Christie’s, copy in curatorial object file]; Christie’s, London, October 24, 2007, lot 97; acquired by Barakat Gallery, London [correspondence with Christie’s, copy in curatorial object file]. Fortuna Fine Arts, Ltd., New York; acquired by Ross and Carol Brownson, Saint Louis, 2011; given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 2021.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Geneva, Musée Rath, Art antique, Collections privées de Suisse Romande, 1975.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 151, December 15, 2021 - present.
Literature
Published references
- Munzen und Medaillen A.G. Basel, Auktion 26: Kunstwerke der Antike, sale cat. (Munzen und Medaillen A.G. Basel, October 5, 1963), lot 88 (ill.).
- Henri Metzger and Denis van Berchem, “Hippeis” in Gestalt und Geschichte : Festschrift Karl Schefold zu seinem sechzigsten Geburtstag (Francke, 1967), p. 155, pl. 55 and 56,2.
- Jose Dorig, Art antique, Collections privées de Suisse Romande (University of Geneva, 1975), cat. 159.
- Christies, New York, Antiquities, sale cat. (Christie’s, October 24, 2007), pp. 68-69, lot 97 (ill.).
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