Rhyton (Drinking Vessel) in the Shape of a Donkey Head

1. Said to be from Nola [according to Durand catalogue, 1836]. Edmé-Antoine Durand (1768-1835); sold at estate sale, Paris, April 25 - May 27, 1836. James-Alexander de Pourtalès-Gorgier (1776-1855), Paris, by 1841; sold at estate sale, Paris, February 6, 1865. Eugène Piot (1812-1890), Paris; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 27-30, 1890, lot 172, to Charles L. Hutchinson (1854-1924) and Martin A. Ryerson (1856-1932), Chicago; on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1890-1905; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1905.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 155, April 20, 1994 - February 6, 2012.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Dionysos Unmasked: Ancient Sculpture and Early Prints, Gallery 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 and February 26, 2016 - present.

• Jean de Witte, Description des Antiquités et objets d’art qui composent le Cabinet de feu M. le Chevalier E. Durand (Paris 1836), no. 1278.
• Leon Jean Joseph Dubois. Description des Antiques Faisant Partie des Collections de M. le Comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier (Paris 1841), p. 38, no. 160.
• Catalogue des objets d’art… qui composent les collections de feu M. le Comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier (Paris 1865), p. 41, no. 171.
• Collection Eugène Piot, Antiquités (Paris 1890), p. 47, no. 172.
• Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago (1928), pp. 131-2.
• Daniel Catton Rich, "A Rhyton in the Brygan Manner", American Journal of Archaeology 34 (1930), p. 53.
• Daniel Catton Rich, "A Rhyton in the Brygan Manner, in International Studio (Aug. 1931), pp. 20-21, 74, figs. 1 and 2.
• David M. Robinson, Cornelia G. Harcum and J.H. Iliffe, A Catalogue of the Greek Vases in the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology (Toronto, 1930), p. 171.
• Herbert Hoffman, Attic Red-Figured Rhyta (Mainz 1962) 15 and 45, no. 120, and pl. 23, nos. 3-4.
• John D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase Painters, vol. II, (The Clarendon Press, 1963), p. 445, no. 259.
• Max Wegner, Duris (Universität Münster thesis; 1968), p. 218.
• Warren G. Moon and Louise Berge, Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections (Art Institute of Chicago, 1979), pp. 190-191, no. 107.

Statuette of a Seated Girl

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Pelike (Storage Jar)

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Amphoriskos (Container for Oil)

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Pyxis (Container for Personal Objects)

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Column-Krater (Mixing Bowl)

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Mug

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Skyphos (Drinking Cup)

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Pyxis (Container for Personal Objects)

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