On View
- Artist
- The Timokrates Painter (near)
(Greek, Attic, active ca. 470-ca. 460 B.C.E.) - Title
- Oil Jar (Lekythos) with Two Women Carrying Funerary Gifts
- Date
- ca. 460 B.C.E.
- Period
- Hellenistic period
- Medium
- Earthenware with red-figure decoration on white-ground
- Dimensions
- At shoulder: 15 7/8 x 5 1/4 in. Overall
- Credit
- Edna G. Dyar Fund and Fairchild Foundation Fund purchase
- Accession No.
- 70.2
- Classification
- Ceramics
- Geography
- Greece
Related
Unknown private collection (Basel, Switzerland or England); 13 December 1969, purchased from Münzen und Medaillen, A.G. (Basel, Switzerland) auction "Kunstwerke der Antike" [sale 40, lot 111] on behalf of the Elvehjem Art Center [now called the Chazen Museum of Art]. [last researched by Chazen staff January 2023]
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- Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections: The Art Institute of Chicago, 12/22/1979–2/24/1980
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