Oinochoe (pitcher) in the form of a female head
Artist:
Attributed to the Cook Class
Place made:Greece
Culture: Greek
Date: ca. 475-450 BC
Medium: Terracotta
Dimensions:
height to rim (front): 5 in. (12.7 cm)
height to handle top: 6 1/4 in. (15.8 cm)
max. diameter of foot: 2 5/16 in. (5.8 cm)
height to top of face (black glaze): 3 7/16 in. (8.8 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: 86.134.82
Provenance: Sold by Spink & Son, London, to William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), San Simeon, 1935; William Randolph Hearst Estate, 1951-1963; sold by Hearst Estate at Parke-Bernet, New York, April 5, 1963, lot 31 to Eric de Kolb (1916-2001), New York. With J.J. Klejman, New York, by 1977. Sold by André Emmerich Gallery, New York, to Gilbert M. Denman, Jr. (1921-2004), San Antonio, 1977; Gilbert M. Denman, Jr., by gift to San Antonio Museum of Art, 1986.
Published References
J.D. Beazley, "Attic Red-figure Vase-painters," 2nd ed., (Oxford 1963) 1543, 143
Parke-Bernet, New York, April 5, 1963, lot 31
Andre Emmerich Gallery, "Classical Art from New York Private Collections" (New York 1977), no. 48
H.A. Shapiro, C.A. Picón, G.D. Scott, III, eds., Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio, 1995), p. 252, no. 131
L. J. McAlpine, Let Us Now Not Boast of Our Worldly Possessions: Provenance Stories from the San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio Museum of Art 2022), p. 30-31
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