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Mixing Vessel (Bell Krater) with Theseus Pursuing Helen

Mixing Vessel (Bell Krater) with Theseus Pursuing Helen

Niobid Painter (follower of) (attributed to)

Artist
Niobid Painter (follower of) (attributed to)
(Greek, Attic, active ca. 470-ca. 445 B.C.E.)
Title
Mixing Vessel (Bell Krater) with Theseus Pursuing Helen
Date
ca. 460-450 B.C.E.
Medium
Earthenware with red-figure decoration
Dimensions
14 x 17 in. overall
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Frank
Accession No.
69.31.1
Classification
Ceramics
Geography
Greece

Related

by February 1968, with Münzen und Medaillen A.G. (Basel, Switzerland); 17 February 1968, sold by André Emmerich Gallery, Inc. (New York, NY) on behalf of Münzen and Medaillen A.G. (Basel, Switzerland) to Arthur J. and Edith Fairchild Frank (Milwaukee, WI); 10 October 1969, gifted to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called the Chazen Museum of Art] [Last researched by Chazen staff 3 June 2022]

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  • "SchoolsMusuemsART (SMART) Project." Madison, WI: Madison Metropolitan School District, 2002.
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Ancient Etruscan and Greek Vases in the Elvehjem Museum of Art." University of Wisconsin Regents. Madison, Wis., 2000. p. 62, no. 41
  • University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. "The Classical World: Aegean Art." Art History Image Search, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Online. Mar 7, 2003. <http://facstaff.uww.edu/henigec/imagesearch/index.htm>;
  • Herbert, A. Cahn. "Art of the Ancients: Greeks, Etruscans, and Romans." New York: Andre Emmerich Gallery, 1968. p. 29
  • Elvehjem Art Center. "Bulletin 1970-1971." Madison: Elvehjem Art Center, 1971. p. 43
  • Classical Art Research Centre. University of Oxford. "Beazley Archive Pottery Database.": https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/15C4DFC7-A331-40D0-A229-45EA534D7F1D. no. 12286

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