Amphora with Animal Frieze

late 7th century BCE (Orientalizing)

30 cm 44.4 cm

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With its body divided into five horizontal registers separated by thick black and red lines, this amphora depicts a variety of real and mythical animals on a yellow background crowded with black dots, leaves, and rosettes. The animals–leopards, boars, swans, and goats, as well...

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Henry G. Marquand, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry G. Marquand Sale, American Art Galleries, New York, 1902, no. 972. Robert Garrett, Baltimore, by purchase [date of acquisition unknown]; Kende Galleries, New York, The Robert Garrett Collection Sale, October 6, 1951, no. 96; Walters Art Museum, 1951, by purchase.
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