Provenance

Reportedly from a group of tombs, Ciro, Calabria, Italy [see note 1]. Reportedly private collection, possibly Basel, Switzerland, by 1975 [see note 2]; sold to Annewies van den Hoek and John J. Herrmann, Jr., Dedham, Mass., 1975; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2008

Note 1: The present object is one of eleven vessels given to the Gallery in 2008. According to the object group’s Recommendation for Accession, the vessels came from a group of tombs around the neighborhood of Ciro, Calabria (Recommendation for Accession, December 9, 2008, copy in accession file)

Note 2: According to the object group’s Deed of Gift, Hermann purchased the vessels in 1975 from “a friend of Elie Borowski, Basle.” (Deed of Gift, December 14, 2008, copy in accession file)

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