Amphora (Storage Jar)

Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium

340-330 BCE

Attributed to the Ixion Painter
Greek; Campania, Italy

One of the first objects to enter the Art Institute’s collection, this amphora represents changes in conservation practices across different centuries. Before it was acquired by the museum in the 19th century, the vessel had broken and been repaired. The staples that hold the foot together are from this early restoration. Some fragments were missing, including important parts of the figural scene depicting the battle between the Greeks and the Amazons. Because filling in these areas would require imaginative reconstruction, these areas of loss were not restored. The lower decorative band, a uniform key pattern, was restored. 20th-century restoration with matte black plaster indicates areas of loss in the band. The fragments of this amphora were reassembled in an earlier century using pieces of other ceramic vessels, but this amphora was left intact by conservators.

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

Artist: Ixion Painter
Title: Amphora (Storage Jar)
Place: Campania (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.: 340 BCE–330 BCE
Medium: terracotta, red-figure
Dimensions: 86.4 × 36.1 × 26 cm (34 1/2 × 14 1/4 × 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Philip D. Armour and Charles L. Hutchinson
Reference Number: 1889.24
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William M.R. French, Notes [on a] journey to Europe with Mr. and Mrs. C.L. Hutchinson starting from New York Sat’y Mch. 9, 1889- , p. 23 (no. 2).
Art Institute of Chicago, Preliminary Catalogue of Metal Work, Graeco-Italian Vases, and Antiquities, December 9, 1889 (Chicago: Early & Halla Printing Company, 1889), p. 44, no. 351.
H.B. Walters, Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum Volume II: Black-Figured Vases (London: British Museum, 1893), no. 484.
A.D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania Campania and Sicily, vol. 1 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967), pp. 335-340, Pl. 132 1-3 (before cleaning).
K. Schauenburg, “Frauen im Fenster,” RM 79 (1972), pp. 1-15, esp. 7-8, pl. 13, 2.
A.D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania Campania and Sicily: Second Supplement (BICS Suppl. 31; London, 1973), p. 205.
A.D. Trendall, The Red-figured Vases of Lucania Campania and Sicily: Third Supplement (BICS Suppl. 41; London, 1983), p. 157.
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC), I (Artemis, 1981-2009), pp. 612-613, no. 406, I.2: p. 491, no. 406.
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. 18.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 152A, November 11, 2012 - November 9, 2018.

Said to be found in Capua, 1883 [Old Register at the Art Institute of Chicago]. Augusto Mele, Naples, Italy; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago through J.C. Fletcher as agent, 1889; price reimbursed by Charles Hutchinson and Philip D. Armour, 1889.

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