Water Jar

between 475 and 450 BCE

Attributed to Pig Painter Greek, ca. 475-450

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Ancient Greek and Roman, Level 2, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Water Jar

Artwork Date between 475 and 450 BCE

Artist Attributed to Pig Painter

Life Dates ca. 475-450

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Greek

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Clay

Dimensions Overall: 13 3/4 × 15 1/8 × 12 1/16 inches (34.9 × 38.4 × 30.6 cm) Overall (diam of mouth): 5 13/16 inches (14.7 cm) Overall (diam of foot): 5 3/16 inches (13.1 cm)

Classification Ceramics

Department Greco-Roman and Ancient European

Credit Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 63.13

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Provenance

1936, (Spink and Sons, Ltd. [est. 1666], London, England);
collection of William Randolph Hearst;
April 5-6, 1963, auction of W. R. Hearst (Parke Bernet, New York, New York, USA), lot 65;
1963-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

William Randolph Hearst. Sales cat., Parke Bernet. New York, April 5-6, 1963, lot 65, (repr.).

"La Chronique des Arts," Gazette des Beaux Arts (February 1964): p. 37, no. 136, (repr.).

Beazley, J. D. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford, 1st ed., p. 173, no. 15; 2nd ed., p. 565, no. 40.

Beazley, J. D. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic black-figure Vase-Painters and to Attic red-Figure Vase-painters. Oxford, 1971, p. 389, no. 40.

Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections. Exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, December 22, 1979-February 24, 1980, pp. 166-167, cat. 95 [exh. organized by W. G. Moon and L. Berge].

Moon, W. G. Ancient Greek Art and Iconography. Madison, 1983, p. 212.

Keuls, E. C. The Reign of the Phallus. New York, 1985, pp. 238, 241, (repr.).

Keuls, E. C. "The Hetaera and the Housewife: The Splitting of the female Psyche in Greek Art." In Painter and Potter in ancient Greece. Stuttgart, 1997, pp. 217-244, (fig. 22-23) [originally published in MedInstRome (?Mededeelingen van het Nederlands Historisch Instituut te Rome?), Rome, vol. 44, 1982, pp. 23-40].

Madigan, B. Corinthian and Attic Vases in the Detroit Institute of Arts. In Monumenta Graeca et Romana, vol. 12. Leiden/Boston, 2008, pp. 52-53, cat. 66, (fig. 96-97).

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attributed to Pig Painter, Water Jar, between 475 and 450 BCE, clay. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 63.13.