
Bell Krater (Mixing Bowl)
Ancient Greek · about 450 BCE
Provenance
Ownership history
- Said to have been found at Capua [according to van Branteghem catalogue]. Alphonse van Branteghem, Brussels; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 30-June 1, 1892, lot 86, to Martin A. Ryerson, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Case for Wine: From King Tut to Today,Regenstein Hall, July 11 – September 20, 2009.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 155, 1996 - July, 2009 and September, 2009 - February 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 - March 24, 2023.
Literature
Published references
- Wilhelm Fröhner, Collection van Branteghem: Vases peints et terre cuites antiques (Paris, 1892), no. 86.
- Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 16 (1922), pp. 59 and 63.
- Daniel C. Rich, "Five Red-Figured Vases in the Art Institute of Chicago," American Journal of Archaeology 34 (1930), pp. 171-6 (ill.).
- T.B.L. Webster, Der Niobidmaler (Leipzig: Keller, 1935), p. 21, no. 15c, pl. 192.
- Erika Simon, Opfernde Götter (Berlin: Röll, 1953), p. 102 n. 67.
- John D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, vol. II (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1963), p. 610, no. 21.
- Warren G. Moon and Louise Berge, Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1979), pp. 208-10, no. 117.
- Elena Epifanio, “Un cratere Imerese dell’officina del Pittore dei Niobidi”, in L. Beschi, G. Pugliese Carratelli, G. Rizza and S. Settis (eds.), Aparchai: Nuove ricerche e studi sulla Magna Grecia in onore di P.E. Arias (Pisa: Giardini, 1982) 347-56, pl. 90, 1.
- Mathias Prange, Der Niobidenmaler und seine Werkstatt (Frankfurt: Lang 1989), pp. 26-7, 35 and 212 no. GN 35.
- S.B. Matheson, “Beardless, Armed, and Barefoot: Ephebes, Warriors, and Ritual on Athenian Vases”, in D. Yatromanolakis (ed.), An Archaeology of Representations, Ancient Greek Vase-Painting and contemporary Methodologies (Athens: Kardamitsa, 2009), pp. 402 and 404, fig. 8.
- 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. 38.
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