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Artist: Boston Ready Painter, Greek, Southern Italy ca. 330-315 B.C.
Amphora
ca. 330–320 B.C.
Terracotta. Red-figure. Accents in added white and red slip
51.2 × 19.2 cm (20 3/16 × 7 9/16 in.)
Gift of Ruth Elizabeth White
1988.80.9
Culture:
Greek, South Italian, Campanian, Cumaean
Period:
Early Hellenistic
Classification:
Containers - Ceramics
Provenance:
Ex collection Sagridites(?); sale of the above, Medina Art Galleries, Ltd., New York; Ruth Elizabeth White, acquired from the above, 1961; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., acquired from the above, 1988.
Bibliography:
“Acquisitions 1988,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (Spring 1989).
Mimi Gardner Gates, “Director’s Report 1988,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (Spring 1989): 116.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
