Piriform (Pear-Shaped) Jar with Sea Creatures
Piriform (Pear-Shaped) Jar with Sea Creatures
Place of OriginGreece, stylistically attributed to Ialysos (Rhodes)
DateMycenaean, 1375--1300 B.C
DimensionsH: 16 1/8 in. (40.9 cm); Max Diam (body): 42 5/32 in. (107.1 cm); Diam (lip): 6 5/16 in. (16 cm); Diam (foot): 4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm)
MediumWheel-thrown, slip-decorated earthenware
ClassificationCeramics
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1965.173
Not on View
Vermeule, Emily, "Myths, Shapes and Colors," Apollo, vol. 86, no. 70, 1967, p. 418, fig. 1.
Riefstahl, Rudolph, "Greek Vases," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 11, no. 2, 1968, p. 29.
Lakofsky, Charles, Pottery, Dubuque, 1968, p. 84, fig. 83.
Ebertshauser, Heidi C. and Michael Walts, Antiken I, Vasen-Bronzen-Terrakotten des klassischen Altertums, Munchen, 1981, p. 29, fig. 25.
Boulter, Cedric G., and Kurt T. Luckner, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Toledo Museum of Art fasc. 2, U.S.A. fasc. 20, Mainz, 1984, pl. 62.
560-540 BCE
620-600 BCE
about 700 BCE
800-700 BCE
Mycenaean, 1425-1400 BCE
Mycenaean, 1375-1300 BCE
Mycenaean, about 1150 BCE
Mycenaean, 1400-1300 BCE
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