About the Artwork
Storage Jar
between 520 and 510 BCE
Attributed to Eye-Siren Group
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Greek
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Clay
Overall: 14 3/4 × 10 3/8 inches (37.5 × 26.4 cm) Overall (diam. of mouth): 6 15/16 inches (17.6 cm) Overall (diam. of foot): 5 7/16 inches (13.8 cm)
Ceramics
Greco-Roman and Ancient European
Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund
63.15
Public Domain
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Provenance
collection of Charles Cope;June 4, 1937, sold by (Spink and Sons, Ltd. [est. 1666], London, England);
June 4, 1937, purchased by William Randolph Hearst;
April 5-6, 1963, auction of W. R. Hearst (Parke Bernet, New York, New York, USA), lot 68;
1963-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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William Randolph Hearst. Sales cat., Parke Bernet. New York, April 5-6, 1963, lot 68, (repr.).
Beazley, J. Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963, 2nd ed., p. 287, no. 2 [under the Antimenes Painter and his circle].
Bulletin of the DIA 43, no. 2 (Spring 1964): p. 32.
Beazley, J. D. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic black-figure Vase-Painters and to Attic red-Figure Vase-painters. Oxford, 1971, p. 125, no. 6 bis.
Image and Artifact: Ancient Art from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., DIA Statewide Services Travelling Exhibition. Detroit, February 5, 1984 - December 16, 1985, cat. 38.
Madigan, B. Corinthian and Attic Vases in the Detroit Institute of Arts. In Monumenta Graeca et Romana, vol. 12. Leiden/Boston, 2008, pp. 22-23, cat. 30, (fig. 42-44) [citing Beazley's attribution to the Eye-Siren Group].
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Credit Line for Reproduction
attributed to Eye-Siren Group, Storage Jar, between 520 and 510 BCE, clay. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 63.15.
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