Lekanis (Covered Dish) by Ancient Greek
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Lekanis (Covered Dish)

Ancient Greek · 450-430 BCE

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Said to be from Santa Maria di Capua, 1880 [Old Register at the Art Institute of Chicago]. Pio Marinangeli, Rome; sold to the Art Institute of Chciago, 1889; price reimbursed by Charles Hutchinson, 1889.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Greek Vase Painting in Midwestern Collections, The Art Institute of Chicago, December 22, 1979-February 4, 1980, cat. no. 121.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 155, April 20, 1994 - February 6, 2012.
  • The 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

  • W. Helbig, “Viaggio nell’Italia meridionale,” Bullettino dell' Istituto di corrispondenza archeologica, 7 (July, 1881), p. 144.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Preliminary Catalogue of Metal Work, Graeco-Italian Vases, and Antiquities, December 9, 1889 (Chicago: Early and Halla Printing Company 1889), p. 44 no. 349.
  • 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. 18.

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