Object Title
Red-Figure Volute Krater Depicting the Sack of Troy
Measurements
121.9 x 60 cm
Creation Date
ca. 340-330 BCE
Credit Line
Carlos Collection of Ancient Art
Museum Contact
ashanle@emory.edu
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
https://collections.carlos.emory.edu/objects/6762/redfigure-volute-krater-depicting-the-sack-of-troy?ctx=c9ecb47f4c58de9f6836a9a81441a1b96c23419c&idx=0
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
Older than 100 years.
Provenance Information
With Frieda Tchacos [Galerie Nefer], Zurich, Switzerland, by 1983. With Sotheby's London, July 7-8, 1994, lot 353. Purchased by MCCM from Riyahi Gallery, London, England.
Exhibition Information
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, 2000 - May 2004
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - Present
Publication Information
A.D. Trendall and Alexander Cambitoglou, First Supplement to the Red-Figured Vases of Apulia (London: University of London, Institute of Classical Studies, 1983), 147, 151 number 21a.
Galerie Nefer, Nefer 3 (1985), number 10.
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae IV (Zurich: Artemis, 1990), 551, Helene number 361.
A.D. Trendall and Alexander Cambitoglou, Second Supplement to the Red-Figured Vases of Apulia (London: University of London, Institute of Classical Studies, 1992), 147.
Sotheby's London, Antiquities (July 7, 1994), 82-83, lot 353.
MCCM Newsletter, March - May 2000.
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Gift or bequest expected or on loan prior to 2008
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
Purchased by museum in 1999.