Amphora (jar) with an animal frieze
Culture: Etruscan
Date: ca. 620-600 B.C.
Dimensions:
height: 20 15/16 in. (53.2 cm)
diameter of body: 13 7/8 in. (35.3 cm)
diameter of foot: 5 9/16 in. (14.2 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by Gilbert M. Deman, Jr.
Object number: 87.20.4
Provenance: with Leon Pomerance (1907-1988), New York, by 1966; sold, Sotheby's, New York, May 29, 1987, lot 100, to San Antonio Museum of Art
Published References
The Pomerance Collection of Ancient Art (Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Museum, 1966), 121, no. 140.
J.G. Szilágyi, Etruszko-Korinthosi Vázafésteszet (Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1975), 25-26, pl. 45
Sotheby's New York, 29 May 1987, lot 100
H.A. Shapiro, C.A. Picón, G.D. Scott, III, eds., “Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art” (San Antonio, 1995) pp. 67-8, no. 26
Label Text
The animals that decorate this jar include a stag, a hippocamp (half horse and half sea monster), a winged cat, a deer, and three waterfowl. The Etruscan potter has adopted both the fantastical animals and the black-figure technique—the use of lines incised in the dark background to outline the figures—from contemporary Greek pottery made in Corinth. (Jessica Powers 2008)
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