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Skyphos (Drinking Cup)
Ancient Greek · 410-400 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, "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.M.R. French, 1889-?. Notes [on a] journey to Europe with Mr. and Mrs. C.L. Hutchinson starting from New York Sat'y, 1889-?, (unpublished manuscript in Art Institute of Chicago Archives), p. 26.
- 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. 304.
- Homer A. Thompson, "Two Centuries of Hellenistic Pottery," Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 3, 4 (1934), p. 429.
- 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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