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Pitcher (Oinochoe) with Sirens, Swans, Panthers, Goats, and Stags

Pitcher (Oinochoe) with Sirens, Swans, Panthers, Goats, and Stags

The Elvehjem Painter and modern Shoe Lane Painter (Lugano Painter)

The oinochoe is a pitcher with high, vertical handles used for pouring wine. Decoration on the shoulder has a central swan with head turned back surrounded by sirens, goats. The large animal frieze has central lion flanked by a pair of stags, panthers, and goats all facing the lion, with a swan under the handle.
Artist
The Elvehjem Painter and modern Shoe Lane Painter (Lugano Painter)
(Greek, Corinthian, active ca. 600-575 B.C.E.) (Greek)
Title
Pitcher (Oinochoe) with Sirens, Swans, Panthers, Goats, and Stags
Date
ca. 585 B.C.E.
Medium
Earthenware with black-figure decoration
Dimensions
7 1/8 x 6 1/2 in. Overall
Credit
Mary A. Grant Fund purchase
Accession No.
70.3
Classification
Ceramics
Geography
Greece

Related

Unknown date (late nineteenth or early twentieth century), with the "Shoe Lane Painter" (Athens, Greece). By 1953, unknown private collection (Arlesheim, Switzerland).[1] 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] [1] as published in J.L. Benson’s Die Geschichte der korinthischen Vasen (Basel: 1953), p. 47, no. 11a, pl. 9

  • Moon, Warren G. "A New Middle Corinthian Vase Painter in Madison: The Elvehjem Painter." American Journal of Archaeology 81 (1977): 382-389. pp. 382-389
  • "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. 39, no. 19
  • 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>;
  • Moon, Warren G, and Louise Berge. "Greek Vase-painting In Midwestern Collections." Chicago: The Art Institute, 1979. p. 28, no. 42

  • Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections: The Art Institute of Chicago, 12/22/1979–2/24/1980
  • Recent Acquisitions: Elvehjem Art Center, 6/11/1971–8/29/1971

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