Amphoriskos (Container for Oil)

Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium

5th-early 4th century BCE

Eastern Mediterranean, possibly Rhodes

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium

Culture: Ancient Eastern Mediterranean
Title: Amphoriskos (Container for Oil)
Place: Ródhos (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 500 BCE–301 BCE
Medium: Glass, core-formed technique
Dimensions: 9.7 × 4.9 × 4.9 cm (3 7/8 × 1 7/8 × 1 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Ebenezer Buckingham
Reference Number: 1891.29
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Luckner, Kurt T. Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 1994, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 83, 84. (ill.)
Karen B. Alexander, “From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), pp. 31, 32, figs. 16, 37.

Eugène Piot (1812-1890), Paris; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 27-30, 1890, lot 419, to the Art Institute of Chicago; price reimbursed by Ebenezer Buckingham, 1891.

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