Provenance Information

Collection of Joann and Gifford Phillips; Yale University Art Gallery, acquired from the above, 2008.

Exhibition Information

N/A

Publication Information

"Acquisitions 2009," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2009): 142.

Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970

Informed judgement that works were outside of the country of modern discovery before 1970

Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above

From a collector who was purchasing works in Athens in the 1960s.

Provenance Information

[By March 1982, with Sandro Cimicchi, Basel, Switzerland]; early 1980s,
acquired by Rolf Blatter, gift from Sandro Cimicchi; early 1980s – 2015, collection of
Rolf Blatter, Bolligen, Switzerland; 2015-2020, by descent to his wife, Elsbeth Blatter;
2014-2020, on loan to the MMA; 2020, acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
gift of Elsbeth Blatter.

Exhibition Information

None

Publication Information

M. Padgett, "A Unique Vase in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," in A.J. Clark and J. Gaunt eds., Essays in Honor of Dietrich von Bothmer (Amsterdam, 2002), p. 249, f. 1 and p. 256, fn. 27

Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970

Cumulative facts and circumstances

Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above

The fragments join the Psykter Column- Krater, 1986.11.12 and, when possible, an effort will be made to incorporate them into the vase. The fragments were published in 2002. They have been on loan to the Museum since 2014, but have not been displayed as they have no figural decoration; as a loan they have been published on the Museum’s website.

Provenance Information

with Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg, by 1987; sold by Galerie Günter Puhze to Robert Willson (1912-2000) and Margaret Pace Willson (1919-2006), San Antonio, 1990; by inheritance to Margaret Pace Willson’s son, Paul Pace, San Antonio, 2006; by gift to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 2020

Exhibition Information

San Antonio Museum of Art, 1990-1992

Publication Information

Galerie Günter Puhze, Kunst der Antike 7 (Freiburg, 1987), no. 287

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

The beads were on loan to the museum 1990-1992.

Provenance Information

sold by Moger Ancient Art to Charles Ede Gallery, London, 1973; sold by Charles Ede Gallery to Dr. Milton Jacobs (1927-2018), San Antonio, 1975; gift of his estate to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 2019

Exhibition Information

n/a

Publication Information

Ede Gallery, General Catalogue 97, July 1974, no. 3.2

Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970

Cumulative facts and circumstances

Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above

This work has provenance established to 1973. The San Antonio Museum of Art’s collection has few examples of Late Minoan ceramics, and this cup strengthens the Aegean Bronze Age collection.

Provenance Information

Collection of Wladimr Rosenbaum (1894-1984), collection/Casa or Galeria Serodine, Ascona, Switzerland before 1978; Peter Conradty and family, Nurenberg, Germany, acquired from the above, 1982; Charles Ede, London, acquired from the above by March, 2015; exhibited at TEFAF Fair, New York City, October 22-26, 2016; Yale University Art Gallery, acquired from the above, 2016.

Exhibition Information

Aus der Glanzzeit Athens: Meisterwerke Grieschischer Vasenkunst in Privatbesit BATIG, Hamburg , 05/29/1986-08/29/1986; Schleswig-Holstein Girozentrale, Kiel, 09/22/1986-10/24/1986; and Übersee-Museum, Bremen, 12/12/1986-01/18/1987.

“Mythen und Menschen: Griechische Vasenmalerei aus einer Deutschen Privatsammlung,” Antikensammlung des Martin-von-Wagner-Museum der Universität Würzburg, 07/01/1997–09/28/1997

“Dionysos, Rausch und Ekstase,” Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, 10/09/2013-01/12/ 2014; and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, 02/06/2014-06/10/2014.

Sights and Sounds of Ancient Ritual, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 11/09/2018–03/03/2019

Publication Information

Wilhelm Hornbostel, Aus der Glanzzeit Athens:Meisterwerke Griechischer Vasenkunst in Privatbesitz (Hamburg Germany: BATIG Gesellschaft, 1986), 111–14, no. 53, ill.

Christa Bauchenss-Thüriedl, Erika Simon, and Ingrid Krauskopf, Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classica, 8 vols. (Zurich: Artemis, 1981–97).

Michael Philipp, Dionysos, Rauch und Ekstase/Ausstellung und Katalog (Munich, Germany: Hirmer, 2013), 184–85, no. 79, ill.

Gundrun Güntner et al., Mythen und Menschen (Mainz, Germanny: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1997), 94–97, no. 27, ill.

"Reexamining Transvestism in Archaic and Classical Athens: The Zewadski Stamnos," American Journal of Archaeology 103 (1999): 230, 232–33, 237, fig. 11–12.

Sarah D. Price, "Anacrontic Vases Reconsidered," Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (1990): 161.

Susan B. Matheson, "Reveling with Dionysos: A Drinking Cup by the Oedipus Painter," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2017): 102, 104–105, fig. 1–4.

"Acquisitions July 1, 2016–June 30, 2017," https://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/bulletin/Pub-Bull-acquisitions-2017.pdf (accessed December 1, 2017).

Thomas Mannack, "Beazley Archive Database," http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/xdb/ASP/browse.asp?tableName=qryData&newwindow=&BrowseSession=1&companyPage=Contacts&newwindowsearchclosefrombrowse= (accessed 1997–2019), Shape Record: Cup B.

Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970

Cumulative facts and circumstances

Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above

Provenance goes back to 1978; Extensive publication and exhibition record in Europe and the U.S. from 1986-2015 (see Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 2017, p. 108, n. 5 for citations).

Provenance Information

Galerie Simon de Monbrison, Paris, by 1983; Donald Morris Gallery, Birmingham, Mich., acquired from the above in 1983; private collection, 1983-1995; Donald Morris Gallery, acquired from the above, 1995; Yale University Art Gallery, acquired from the above, 2010.

Exhibition Information

N/A

Publication Information

"Acquisitions," https://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Pub_Bull_acquisitions_2010.pdf (accessed 2012).

Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970

Cumulative facts and circumstances

Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above

Galerie Simone de Monbrison, Paris, was primarily active in the 1960s and early 1970s, a gallery that dealt mostly in African and Oceanic Art, not the usual Italy to Switzerland trade route. They did not specialize in Ancient Greek and Roman art.

Provenance Information

Collection of Joann and Gifford Phillips; Yale University Art Gallery, acquired from the above, 2008.

Exhibition Information

N/A

Publication Information

"Acquisitions 2009," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2009): 142.

Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970

Informed judgement that works were outside of the country of modern discovery before 1970

Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above

From a collector who was purchasing works in Athens in the 1960s.

Provenance Information

Athens art market; Joann and Gifford Phillips, acquired from the above, 1962; Yale University Art Gallery, acquired from the above, 2008.

Exhibition Information

N/A

Publication Information

"Acquisitions 2009," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2009): 142, ill.

Pat Getz-Gentle, "A Cycladic Figure Attributed to the Israel Museum Sculptor," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2011): 80–85, fig. 1.

Pat Getz-Gentle, Sculptors of the Cyclades: Individual and Traditoin in the Third Millenium B.C. (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Research Press, 1987), 86–88, checklist p. 157, pl. 23.

Pat Getz-Gentle, Personal Styles in Early Cycladic Sculpture (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001), 155.

Jurgen Thimme, ed., Art and Culture of the Cyclades in the Third Millenium B.C. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977), 252, fig. 128.

Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970

Informed judgement that works were outside of the country of modern discovery before 1970

Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above

Purchased on Athens art market in 1962.

Provenance Information

Collection of Erika Hughes; Yale University Art Gallery, acquired by bequest from the above, 2014.

Exhibition Information

N/A

Publication Information

"Acquisitions 2015," http://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Pub_Bull_acquisitions_2015_updated%2012_16_15.pdf (accessed December 1, 2015).

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

Correspondence regarding bequest prior to 2008

Provenance Information

Private collector, prior to 1983; Michael Ward & Company, acquired from the above; Yale University Art Gallery, acquired from the above, 2002.

Exhibition Information

N/A

Publication Information

Richard A. Grossmann, "A Greek Boy at Yale: Form and Function in Ancient Greek Statues of Children," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2004): 92–95, fig. 1–2.

"Acquisitions 2002," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2003): 133, ill.

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

On loan and acquired in 2002