Storage Jar Depicting a Gathering of Gods and Goddesses, between 560 and 540 BCE

  • Greek

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)

Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund

63.18

On View

  • Ancient Greek and Roman, Level 2, South
  • Ancient Greek and Roman, Level 2, South

Department

Greco-Roman and Ancient European

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)

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].

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.