Object Title
Jug
Measurements
6 7/8 × 4 1/2 in. (17.463 × 11.43 cm)
Creation Date
700–900
Credit Line
Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of John J. Herrmann, Jr., B.A. 1959, and Annewies van den Hoek
Museum Name
Museum Contact
artgalleryinfo@yale.edu
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/133936
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
N/Au
Provenance Information
Reportedly from a group of tombs, Ciro, Calabria, Italy [see note 1]. Reportedly private collection, possibly Basel, Switzerland, by 1975 [see note 2]; sold to Annewies van den Hoek and John J. Herrmann, Jr., Dedham, Mass., 1975; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2008
Note 1: The present object is one of eleven vessels given to the Gallery in 2008. According to the object group’s Recommendation for Accession, the vessels came from a group of tombs around the neighborhood of Ciro, Calabria (Recommendation for Accession, December 9, 2008, copy in accession file)
Note 2: According to the object group’s Deed of Gift, Herrmann purchased the vessels in 1975 from “a friend of Elie Borowski, Basle.” (Deed of Gift, December 14, 2008, copy in accession file)
Note 1: The present object is one of eleven vessels given to the Gallery in 2008. According to the object group’s Recommendation for Accession, the vessels came from a group of tombs around the neighborhood of Ciro, Calabria (Recommendation for Accession, December 9, 2008, copy in accession file)
Note 2: According to the object group’s Deed of Gift, Herrmann purchased the vessels in 1975 from “a friend of Elie Borowski, Basle.” (Deed of Gift, December 14, 2008, copy in accession file)
Exhibition Information
N/A
Publication Information
"Acquisitions 2009," in "State of the Art: Contemporary Sculpture," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2009), 143
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
N/D
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
N/A