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Amphoriskos (Container for Oil)
Ancient Eastern Mediterranean · 5th-early 4th century BCE
Provenance
Ownership history
- Eugène Piot (1812-1890), Paris; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 27-30, 1890, lot 419, to the Art Institute of Chicago; price reimbursed by Ebenezer Buckingham, 1891.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Luckner, Kurt T. Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 1994, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 83, 84. (ill.)
- 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, figs. 16, 37.
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