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Mastoid (Drinking Cup)
Leafless Group · 500-480 BCE
Provenance
Ownership history
- Augusto Mele, Naples, Italy; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago through J.C. Fletcher as agent, 1889; price reimbursed by Charles Hutchinson and Philip D. Armour, 1889.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- 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 - April 7, 2017.
Literature
Published references
- William M.R. French, Notes [on a] journey to Europe with Mr. and Mrs. C.L. Hutchinson starting from New York Sat'y Mch. 9, 1889- , (unpublished manuscript, Art Institute of Chicago Archives), p. 25.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Preliminary Catalogue of Metal Work, Graeco-Italian Vases, and Antiquities, December 9, 1889 (Chicago: Early & Halla Printing Company, 1889), p. 38, no. 303.
- John D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase Painters (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956) p. 649, no. 242.
- A.W. Johnston, Trademarks on Greek Vases (Liverpool: Aris and Phillips Ltd., 1979), pp. 126, 128.
- 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., 3E; no. 52.
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