Collection Storage Jar Depicting a Gathering of Gods and Goddesses

Storage Jar Depicting a Gathering of Gods and Goddesses

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About the Artwork

Storage Jar Depicting a Gathering of Gods and Goddesses

between 560 and 540 BCE

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Greek

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Clay

Overall (jar): 16 1/8 × 10 5/8 inches (41 × 27 cm) Overall (lid): 2 7/8 × 7 1/2 inches (7.3 × 19.1 cm) Overall (with lid): 19 × 10 5/8 inches (48.3 × 27 cm) Overall (diam. of foot): 5 13/16 inches (14.7 cm)

Ceramics

Greco-Roman and Ancient European

Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund

63.18

Public Domain

Markings

Marked, grafitto, underside of foot: [see Curatorial Card for reproduction of mark].

Provenance

1924, (C. and E. Canessa, New York, New York, USA);
January 25-26, 1924, auctioned through (American Art Galleries, New York, New York, USA), lot 65;
collection of William Randolph Hearst;
April 5-6, 1963, auction of W. R. Hearst by (Park Bernet, New York, New York, USA), lot 92;
1963-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Sales cat., American Art Galleries. New York, January 25-26, 1924, lot 65.

W. R. Hearst. Sales cat., Parke-Bernet. New York, April 5-6, 1963, lot 92, (repr.).

Johnston, A. W. Trademarks on Greek Vases. Warminster, England, 1979, p. 125, type 3E, no. 35.

Madigan, B. Corinthian and Attic Vases in the Detroit Institute of Arts. In Monumenta Graeca et Romana, vol. 12. Leiden/Boston, 2008, pp. 24-25, cat. 32, (fig. 48-50) [attributed to Group of Wurzburg 210].

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Greek, Storage Jar Depicting a Gathering of Gods and Goddesses, between 560 and 540 BCE, clay. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 63.18.

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