Phiale (Shallow Bowl for Pouring Ritual Libations)

300-250 BCE

Greek; Campania, Italy

During the course of the 5th and 4th centuries B.C., black vessels like this one (commonly called black-glaze vessels) were made with increasing frequency in both Greece and South Italy. Many of them replicate the shape of metal vessels, while others have detailing that is molded or incised. Regardless, they would have been less expensive than vessels decorated in other contemporary techniques, for example, in red-figure.

Status: On View, Gallery 151
Department: Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

Culture: Ancient Greek
Title: Phiale (Shallow Bowl for Pouring Ritual Libations)
Place: Cales (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.: 300 BCE–250 BCE
Medium: terracotta, Calenian relief ware
Dimensions: 3.8 × 19.3 × 19.3 cm (1 1/2 × 7 5/8 × 7 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Martin A. Ryerson through The Antiquarian Society
Reference Number: 1907.17
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Wilhelm Fröhner, Collection van Branteghem: Vases peintes et terre cuites antiques dont la vente aux enchères aura lieu à Paris, Hôtel Druot, 16-18 Juin, 1892 (Paris 1892), pp. 122-3, no. 305.
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), p. 38.

Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 155, April 20, 1994 - July 2009 and October 2009 - February 6, 2012.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Case for Wine: From King Tut to Today, July 11 – September 20, 2009.
Art Institute of Chicago, Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 151, November 11, 2012 - present.

Alphonse van Branteghem, Brussels; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 30-June 1, 1892, lot 305, to Martin A. Ryerson (1856-1932), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1907.

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