About the Artwork
Storage Jar
between 540 and 520 BCE
Swing Painter
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Greek
Unknown
Clay
Overall: 13 7/16 × 9 1/8 inches (34.1 × 23.2 cm) Overall (diam. of foot): 5 1/8 inches (13 cm)
Ceramics
Greco-Roman and Ancient European
City of Detroit Purchase
24.127
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in paint, underside of foot: H I [can also be read I H]
Provenance
collection of the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha [found at Capua, Italy] (Gotha, Germany)
deposited to Schloss Friedenstein (Gotha, Germany)
1924-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Valentiner, W. R. "Greek Vases," Bulletin of the DIA 6, no. 2 (1924): pp. 10-13, (fig. 3).
Beazley, J. D. Attic Black-figure Vase Painters. Oxford, 1956, p. 305, no. 16 [as "Swing Painter"].
Johnston, A. W. Trademarks on Greek Vases. Warminster (Wiltshire), 1979, p. 74, no. 12A, 1.
Böhr, E. Der Schaukelmaler, vol. 4. Kerameus, Mainz/Rhein, 1982, pp. 103, 106, pl. 147, no. U2 [identified as Circle of Swing Painter].
Carpenter, T.H., T. Mannack and M. Mendonça. Beazley Addenda: Additional References to Attic Black-figure Vase Painters. Oxford, 1989, p. 107.
Madigan, B. Corinthian and Attic Vases in the Detroit Institute of Arts. In Monumenta Graeca et Romana, vol. 12. Leiden/Boston, 2008, pp. 16-17, cat. 24, (fig. 26-27).
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attributed to Swing Painter, Storage Jar, between 540 and 520 BCE, clay. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 24.127.
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