- Artist
- Menzies Group (attributed to)
(Greek, Apulian, active ca. 340-ca. 315 B.C.E.) - Title
- Drinking Vessel (Rhyton) in the Shape of a Bull Head
- Date
- ca. 350-300 B.C.E.
- Period
- Hellenistic period
- Medium
- Earthenware with red-figure decoration
- Dimensions
- 8 3/8 x 5 in. Overall
- Credit
- Fairchild Foundation Endowment Fund purchase
- Accession No.
- 1999.132
- Classification
- Ceramics
- Geography
- Greece
Related
1973, with Peter Sharrer Ancient Art (New York, NY); 1973, sold to Christos G. Bastis (New York, NY); 9 December 1999, following Bastis’s death, sold at Sotheby’s (New York, NY) auction "The Christos G. Bastis Collection" [sale 7404, lot 146] to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]. [Last researched by Chazen staff November 2022]
- Sotheby's, New York. "The Christos G. Bastis Collection." Sotheby's, New York, Dec. 9, 1999.
- Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Bulletin/Biennial Report 1999-2001." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 2002. p. 93
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