Black-Figure Amphora and Stand (Combined Record)

Artist The Acheloos Painter, Leagros Group (Greek)

Place of OriginGreece, Attica

Dateabout 510 BCE

DimensionsH: 23 1/2 in., W: 13 in., D: 13 1/4 in. Diam (rim): 6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm); Diam (body): 12 19/32 in. (32 cm); Diam (foot): 3 in. (7.6 cm)

MediumBlack Figure; Wheel-thrown, slip-decorated earthenware with incised details.

ClassificationCeramics

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1958.69A-B

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 02, Classic

DescriptionThis combined record refers to a large black-figure amphora with a narrow, pointed foot (TMA 1958.69A) and a separate, cylindrical black-figure stand (TMA 1958.69B). Though purchased together and compatible in form, the two were created by different artists and likely were not originally a set. The amphora features mythological scenes involving Herakles and Athena; the stand illustrates a domestic washing scene.

Label TextThis pair was purchased together in 1958 but was likely never a set in antiquity. See the individual records 1958.69A for the amphora with Herakles and the Ceryneian Hind, and 1958.69B for the stand showing domestic activities.Published References

Kunstwerke Der Antike, Auktion XVIII, Münzen und Medaillen, A.G., Basel, November 29, 1958, lot 102 (1).

Arts, Paris, Dec. 31, 1958, no. 703.

"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, July-Sept. 1959," Art Quarterly, vol. 22, 1959, p. 385, repr. p. 384.

La Chronique des Arts, (supplement a la Gazette des Baux-Arts), no. 1092, Jan. 1960, p. 29, repr.

Brommer, Frank, Vasenlisten zur greichischen Heldensage, 2nd ed., Marburg, 1960, p. 62, no. 23.

Washington, Seldon, "Greek Vase Painting," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, new series, vol. 5, no. 4, Winter 1962, repr. p. 90.

Vermuele, Emily, "Myths, Shapes and Colors," Apollo, vol. 86, no. 70, Dec. 1967, p. 424, p. 422 repr., figs. 7.

Riefstahl, Rudolf M., "Greek Vases," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, new series, vol. 11, no. 2, 1968, repr. p. 37.

Beazley, Sir John Davidson, Paralipomena, Oxford, 1971, pp. 168-169 and note, p. 169.

Luckner, Kurt T., "Greek Vases: Shapes and Uses," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, new series, vol. 15, no. 3, 1972, pp. 64, 65, repr. fig. 2 and cover (col.).

Brommer, Frank, Vasenlisten zur griechischen Heldensage, 3rd ed., Marburg, 1973, p. 76, no. 12.

Boardman, John, Athenian Black Figured Vases, London, 1974, p. 111, repr. fig. 209.

Moret, Jan-Marc, LiIlioupersis dans la céramique italiote, Rome, 1975, vol. I, p. 198-199, no. 3.

Boulter, Cedric G., and Kurt T. Luckner, Corpus vasorum antiquorum: Toledo Museum of Art, U.S.A. Fasc. 17, Toledo, 1976, p. 8-9, repr. pl. 14; 15,1 and 2, fig. 3-4.

Johnston, Alan, "Hunting scenes on Greek vases," Connoisseur, vol. 196, no. 789, Nov. 1977, p. 165, repr. (col.) p. 161.

Greek Vase-Painting in the Midwestern Collections, Chicago, Art Institute, 1980, no. 73, p. 128, repr. (col.) pl. IV.

Moore, Mary B. and Mary Zelia Pease Philippides, The Athenian Agora. Volume XXIII: Attic Black-Figured Pottery, Princeton, The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1986, p. 11 (n. 31), p. 31 (n. 13).

Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae, Zurich, 1990, v. V, pt. 1, p. 50, no. 2184, repr. v. V, pt. 2, pl. 67.

A Cultural History of Food in Antiquity, London, 2012, vol. 1, p. 119, repr. fig. 6.1.

Exhibition History

Chicago, Art Institute, Greek Vase-Painting in the Midwestern Collections, 1979-1980, no. 73, p. 128, repr. (col.) pl. IV.