Belly-Amphora (Storage Jar)

1. Summa Galleries, Beverly Hills, by 1977 [according to a letter from Dietrich von Bothmer dated June 9, 1978, in curatorial object file]; Earl Keefer, Culver City, by 1978; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1978.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections, December 22, 1979 – February 24, 1980.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Myth and Legend in Classical Art, Gallery 101A, February 28, 1987 - August 28, 1987.
• Art Institute of Chicago, The Human Figure in Early Greek Art, A Preview, Part One, Gallery 101A, September 1, 1988 – May 24, 1989.
• Art Institute of Chicago, The Human Figure in Early Greek Art, A Preview, Part Two, Gallery 120A, September 24, 1989 - February 21, 1990.
• 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 - April 7, 2023.

• Warren G. Moon and Louise Berge, eds., Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1979), pp. 52-53, no. 31.
• Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, vol. 74, no. 1 (January-March, 1980), p. 8.
• H. Bloesch, Greek Vases From the Hirschmann Collection (Zurich: Rohr, 1982), no. 24.
• Dietrich von Bothmer, The Amasis Painter and His World: Vase-Painting in Sixth-Century B.C. Athens (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1985), p. 49, 51, fig. 50 (ill.).
• Jody Maxmin, "A New Amphora by the Painter of Berlin 1686," in Studien zur Mythologie und Vasenmalerei: Konrad Schauenburg zum 65. Geburtstag am 16. April 1986 (Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 1986), p. 39.
• A.W. Johnston, “Amasis and the Vase Trade,” in Papers on the Amasis Painter and his World, ed. M. True (Los Angeles: Getty Center for the History of Art, 1987), pp. 151-3.
• Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC), 5 (Zurich: Artemis Verlag, 1989), no. 1831, pl. 40.
• John Griffiths Pedley, Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 20, 1 (1994), pp. 38-39, no. 20 (ill.).
• <a href=https://archive.artic.edu/cleo><em>Cleopatra: A Multi-Media Guide to the Ancient World</em></a> (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1997).
• Classical Philology, Front Matter, vol. 92, no. 3 (July 1997), cover ill.
• James N. Wood, Treasures from the The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2000), p. 71, (ill.)
• M.D. Stansbury-O'Donnell, Vase Painting, Gender, and Social Identity in Archaic Athens (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), p. 14, fig. 4.

Amphora (Storage Jar)

Art Institute of Chicago

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