Amphora (jar) with grape-harvesting scene
Probable place made:Greece
Probable place made:Italy
Culture: Greek or Italic
Date: mid 6th century B.C.
Dimensions:
height: 13 3/8 in. (34 cm)
width: 9 7/16 in. (23.9 cm)
depth: 9 3/16 in. (23.4 cm)
diameter of mouth: 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm)
diameter of foot: 4 5/8 in. (11.8 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: 86.134.39
Provenance: with Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg, by 1982; sold by Galerie Günter Puhze to Gilbert M. Denman, Jr. (1921-2004), San Antonio, 1984; Gilbert M. Denman, Jr., by gift to San Antonio Museum of Art, 1986
Published References
Galerie Gunter Puhze, "Kunst der Antike," cat. 4 (Freiburg 1982) 19, no. 197
H.A. Shapiro, C.A. Picon, and G.D. Scott, III, eds., Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio, 1995) pp. 61-2, no. 21
M. Iozzo, "Black-figure Pottery in Magna Graecia and Sicily," in Magna Graecia: Greek Art from South Italy and Sicily, ed. P. Bennett and A. J. Paul (Cleveland Museum of Art, 2002), 67 n. 26.
M. Denoyelle and M. Iozzo, La céramique grecque d'Italie méridionale et de Sicile. Productions coloniales et apparentées du VIIIe au IIIe siècle av. J.-C. (Paris: Picard, 2009), p. 74 n. 28.
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