Storage Jar, early 5th century BCE

  • Edinburgh Painter

Clay

  • Overall: 10 7/8 × 6 3/4 inches (27.6 × 17.1 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund

63.10

On View

  • Ancient Greek and Roman, Level 2, South

Department

Greco-Roman and Ancient European

Inscribed, underside of base, in paint: #175 Inscribed, underside of base, in paint: SSW 12293 [W.R. Hearst collection number]

(Spink and Sons, Ltd. [est. 1666], London, England)

1935, sold to collection of William Randolph Hearst

April 5-6, 1963, auction of W. R. Hearst (Parke Bernet, New York, New York, USA), lot 43

1963-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Beazley, J. D. Attic Black-figure Vase-painters. Oxford, 1956, p. 478, no. 1, (repr.) [Attributed to Edinburgh Painter]. Auction of Willaim Randolph Hearst. Sales cat., Parke Bernet. New York, April 5-6, 1963, lot 43, (repr.). 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. 217. Madigan, B. Corinthian and Attic Vases in the Detroit Institute of Arts. In Monumenta Graeca et Romana, vol. 12. Leiden/Boston, 2008, pp. 20-22, cat. 28, fig. 36-38.

Edinburgh Painter, Storage Jar, early 5th century BCE, clay. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 63.10.