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Aryballos (Container for Oil)
Ancient Eastern Mediterranean · late 6th-5th century BCE
Provenance
Ownership history
- Theodore W. and Frances S. Robinson, Chicago, by 1931; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1941.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- 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
- Wanda Odell, "Ancient Glass: The Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Robinson Collection, Gallery 5A, The Art Institute of Chicago," 1940, unpublished catalogue in curatorial object file, Art Institute of Chicago.
- 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, fig. 16.
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