Oinochoe in the Form of a Sphinx

Place of OriginGreece, from Canosa, Southern Italy

Date3rd century BCE

DimensionsH (to top of handle): 13 11/16 in. (34.7 cm); W (across wings): 8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm); Max Depth: 4 3/16 in. (10.6 cm)

MediumMolded earthenware with tempera painted decoration over a cream slip

ClassificationCeramics

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

Object number

1980.1332

Not on View

Published ReferencesLuckner, Kurt T., The Museum Collects: Treasures by Sculptors and Craftsmen, Toledo, 1980, pp. 10-11.

"News from the world of art," Apollo, vol. 113, no. 229, March, 1981, p. 199, repr.

Boulter, Cedric G., and Kurt T. Luckner, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Toledo Museum of Art, fasc. 2, U.S.A., fasc. 20, Mainz, 1984, pl. 112, p. 28.

Exhibition History"The Museum Collects: Treasures by Sculptors and Craftsmen," Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, Dec. 1980-Jan. 1981, pp. 10-11, repr.

All creatures great and small, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1989.

"Hands On Egypt" TMA interactive family gallery, Gallery 3, Sept. 18, 1998 - Aug. 31, 2000, made possible by a grant from the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund.

Comparative ReferencesSee also Wuilleumier, P., "Les disques de Tarente," Revue archéologique, Paris, 1932, I, pp. 26-64.

cf. Rinuy, A., F. van der Wielen, P. Hartmann and F. Schweizer, "Céramique insolite de l'Italie du Sud: les vases hellénistiques de Canosa," Geneva, XXVI, 1978.

cf. Lohmann, H. "Ein canosiner voluten Krater im Martin von Wagner Museum," Archaeologischer Anzeiger, Berlin, 1979, pp. 187-213.