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Hydria (Water Jar)
Chicago Painter · about 450 BCE
Provenance
Ownership history
- Berkeley Gallery, London, by 1968; sold to Folio Fine Art, London, December 4, 1968 [according to email correspondence in curatorial file]; sold to a private collection, New York, October 16, 1969 [invoice in curatorial file]; sold, Sotheby's, New York, June 7, 2012, lot 16, to Fred Eychaner, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Dionysos Unmasked: Ancient Sculpture and Early Prints, Galleries 150 and 154, July 31, 2015 - February 15, 2016.
- 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 - July 17, 2015; February 25, 2016 - present.
Literature
Published references
- Sotheby’s, New York, Egyptian, Classical and Western Asiatic Antiquities, sale cat. (Sotheby’s, New York, June 7, 2012), lot 16 (ill.).
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