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Urn

Ancient Roman · Mid–1st to 2nd century

Provenance

Ownership history

Acquired in Italy by Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn (1749-1789), North Wales, around 1760 (this and the following according to correspondence from Ward and Company Works of Art, in curatorial object file); thence by descent; sold to K.J. Hewett (1919-1994), London, around 1984. Ward and Company Works of Art, New York, by 1999; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1999.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 156, April 20, 1994-February 6, 2012.
Art Institute of Chicago, Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 152, November 11, 2012-September 8, 2017 and March 21, 2023 - present.

Literature

Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report: 1999 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1999), pp. 10-11.
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. 39.
Sidney Goldstein, “Cat. 115 Urn: Curatorial Entry,” in Roman Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016).

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