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Amphoriskos (Container for Oil)
Ancient Greek · 600-575 BCE
Provenance
Ownership history
- Jean P. Lambros (1843-1909), Athens, Greece; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1892; price reimbursed by Charles L. Hutchinson, 1892.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 155; April 20, 1994 - February 6, 2012.
- 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 - present.
Literature
Published references
- Hans Schaal, Griechische Vassen aus Frankfurter Sammlugen (Frankfurter Verlags - Anstalt A.-G., 1923), Tafel 2.
- 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. 22.
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