Provenance Information

December 2001 (Christie’s, New York); [1] December 2001, Private collection, Washington. D.C.; [2] Gift to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), Richmond, Virginia, June 17, 2020. [3]

[1] Published in auction catalogue: Christie’s Antiquities Auction Catalogue, Sale # 9796, New York, 5-6 December 2001, Lot 480, p. 171. Note: in catalogue it is sold as “The Property of Professor and Mrs. Sid Port” with an earlier provenance indicated as “Superior Galleries, Los Angeles.” No dates provided. These earlier ownerships need to be researched and verified.

[2] Private Collection of Bruce Young, Washington, D.C. Receipt of purchase from August 10, 1998 in object file.

[3] Information in VMFA Curatorial and Registration files.

Exhibition Information

No information currently available.

Publication Information

Auction catalogue, Christie’s Antiquities Auction Catalogue, Sale # 9796, New York, 5-6 December 2001, Lot 480, p. 171.

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

There was an understanding between the museum and donor prior to 2008, as asserted by both Mr. Young and curator at the time, Dr. Margaret Mayo, and as documented in museum records. VMFA undertook additional due diligence, with Mr. Young's permission, by contacting the Italian Ministry of Culture in September of 2019. VMFA sent the Ministry all available records and images on the known modern history of this object and asked if there might be further information on this object or if the museum should contact anyone else for further information. The museum received a response from the Italian Ministry of Culture in October of 2019, stating that the Comando Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale undertook an investigation and determined that they currently had no objections to the museum accepting this donation.

Provenance Information

November 2002 (Charles Ede, Ltd., London); [1] November 2002, Private collection, Washington. D.C.; [2] Gift to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), Richmond, Virginia, June 17, 2020. [3]

[1] Published Charles Ede, Ltd., Antiquities Catalogue 172 (London, November 2002), no. 29. Note: In this publication, an earlier provenance of “Ex Mustaki Collection from Egypt (formed 1910 – 1945)” is listed. This earlier ownership has not been verified.

[2] Private Collection of Bruce Young, Washington, D.C. Invoice in object file dated November 2002.

[3] Information in VMFA Curatorial and Registration files.

Exhibition Information

No information currently available.

Publication Information

Charles Ede, Ltd., Antiquities Catalogue 172 (London, November 2002), no. 29.

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

There was an understanding between the museum and donor prior to 2008, as asserted by both Mr. Young and curator at the time, Dr. Margaret Mayo, and as documented in museum records. VMFA undertook additional due diligence, with Mr. Young's permission, by contacting the Italian Ministry of Culture in September of 2019. VMFA sent the Ministry all available records and images on the known modern history of this object and asked if there might be further information on this object or if the museum should contact anyone else for further information. The museum received a response from the Italian Ministry of Culture in October of 2019, stating that the Comando Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale undertook an investigation and determined that they currently had no objections to the museum accepting this donation.

Provenance Information

December 2004 (Christie’s, New York); [1] December 2004, Private collection, Washington. D.C.; [2] Gift to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), Richmond, Virginia, June 17, 2020. [3]

[1] Published in Christie's, New York, “Antiquities” sale# 1446 (10 December 2004), lot no. 510. Note: In this auction catalogue a previous owner is listed as “The property of a Louisiana Collection” with no date or further information.

[2] Private Collection of Bruce Young, Washington, D.C. Invoice from December of 2004 in the object file.

[3] Information in VMFA Curatorial and Registration files.

Exhibition Information

No information currently available.

Publication Information

Auction catalogue, Christie’s Antiquities Auction Catalogue, Sale# 1446 (10 December 2004), lot no. 510.

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

There was an understanding between the museum and donor prior to 2008, as asserted by both Mr. Young and curator at the time, Dr. Margaret Mayo, and as documented in museum records. VMFA undertook additional due diligence, with Mr. Young's permission, by contacting the Italian Ministry of Culture in September of 2019. VMFA sent the Ministry all available records and images on the known modern history of this object and asked if there might be further information on this object or if the museum should contact anyone else for further information. The museum received a response from the Italian Ministry of Culture in October of 2019, stating that the Comando Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale undertook an investigation and determined that they currently had no objections to the museum accepting this donation.

Provenance Information

July 1998 (Charles Ede, Ltd., London); [1] August 1998, Private collection, Washington. D.C.; [2] Gift to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), Richmond, Virginia, June 17, 2020. [3]

[1] Published in Charles Ede, Ltd., Greek Pottery from South Italy, XVIII, catalogue (London, 1998), no. 5. Facsimile transmission to dealer from buyer July 1998 in file.

[2] Private Collection of Bruce Young, Washington, D.C. Receipt of purchase from August 10, 1998 in object file.

[3] Information in VMFA Curatorial and Registration files.

Exhibition Information

No information currently available.

Publication Information

Charles Ede, Ltd., Greek Pottery From South Italy, XVIII, catalogue (London, 1998), no. 5.

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

There was an understanding between the museum and donor prior to 2008, as asserted by both Mr. Young and curator at the time, Dr. Margaret Mayo, and as documented in museum records. VMFA undertook additional due diligence, with Mr. Young's permission, by contacting the Italian Ministry of Culture in September of 2019. VMFA sent the Ministry all available records and images on the known modern history of this object and asked if there might be further information on this object or if the museum should contact anyone else for further information. The museum received a response from the Italian Ministry of Culture in October of 2019, stating that the Comando Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale undertook an investigation and determined that they currently had no objections to the museum accepting this donation.

Provenance Information

November 1990 (Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, NY). [1] May 2004, John W. Kluge [1914 – 2010], The Morven Collection of Ancient Art, Charlottesville, Virginia; [2] June 2004 (Christie’s, New York); [3] June 2004, Private collection, Washington, D.C.; [4]; Gift to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), Richmond, Virginia, June 17, 2020. [5]


[1] Royal-Athena Galleries, "Art of the Ancient World, vol. VI, part 1,(New York, 1990) no. 119. Note: There is an earlier location and ownership (?) listed prior to
Royal- Athena Galleries: Galerie am Museum Jürgen Haering, Freiburg. This information was published with no date in the Christie’s auction catalogue: “The Morven Collection of Ancient Art”, Sale# 1466, New York, 8 June 2004, lot no. 344, p. 45.

[2] This piece was part of John W. Kluge’s Morven Collection of Ancient Art sold through Christie’s auction house in 2004. It is not yet confirmed where and when
Kluge acquired the object.

[3] Christie’s New York, The Morven Collection of Ancient Art, Sale# 1466 (8 June 2004), lot. 344, p. 45.

[4] Private Collection of Bruce Young, Washington, D.C.

[5] Information in VMFA Curatorial and Registration files.

Exhibition Information

No information currently available.

Publication Information

Auction catalogue, Christie’s, “The Morven Collection of Ancient Art”, Sale# 1466 (New York, 8 June 2004), lot no. 344, p. 45.

A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, "Second Supplement to the Red-Figured Vases of Apulia," London, 1992, p. 258, no. 26/237e (identified as oinochoe).

Royal-Athena Galleries, "Art of the Ancient World, vol. VI, part 1," (New York, 1990) no. 119.

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

There was an understanding between the museum and donor prior to 2008, as asserted by both Mr. Young and curator at the time, Dr. Margaret Mayo, and as documented in museum records. VMFA undertook additional due diligence, with Mr. Young's permission, by contacting the Italian Ministry of Culture in September of 2019. VMFA sent the Ministry all available records and images on the known modern history of this object and asked if there might be further information on this object or if the museum should contact anyone else for further information. The museum received a response from the Italian Ministry of Culture in October of 2019, stating that the Comando Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale undertook an investigation and determined that they currently had no objections to the museum accepting this donation.

Provenance Information

November 2003 (Charles Ede, Ltd., London); [1] November 2003, Private collection, Washington. D.C.; [2]; Gift to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), Richmond, Virginia, June 17, 2020. [3]

[1] Published in Charles Ede Ltd. Antiquities Catalogue 174 (November 2003), no. 28.

[2] Private Collection of Bruce Young, Washington, D.C.

[3] Information in VMFA Curatorial and Registration files.

Exhibition Information

No information currently available.

Publication Information

Charles Ede, Ltd., Antiquities Catalogue 174 (London, Nov. 2003), no. 28.

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

There was an understanding between the museum and donor prior to 2008, as asserted by both Mr. Young and curator at the time, Dr. Margaret Mayo, and as documented in museum records. VMFA undertook additional due diligence, with Mr. Young's permission, by contacting the Italian Ministry of Culture in September of 2019. VMFA sent the Ministry all available records and images on the known modern history of this object and asked if there might be further information on this object or if the museum should contact anyone else for further information. The museum received a response from the Italian Ministry of Culture in October of 2019, stating that the Comando Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale undertook an investigation and determined that they currently had no objections to the museum accepting this donation.

Provenance Information

1987, J. P. Backes Collection. [1] By April 2005 (Magna Graecia Archaeologie Treveris, Germany, stock #DG/35); [2] April 2005, Private collection, Washington. D.C.; [3] Gift to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), Richmond, Virginia, June 17, 2020. [4]

[1] and [2] Statement of authenticity (?) from (Magna Graecia Archaeologie Treveris, Germany, stock #DG/35, Museumtechnischer Dienste MG Germany dated April 2003 stating ex-collection of J.P. Backes from 1987, stock #DG/35, Deutschland. Ownership by, or location of, J.P. Backes collection has not been verified.

[3] Private Collection of Bruce Young, Washington, D.C.

[4] Information in VMFA Curatorial and Registration files.

Exhibition Information

No information currently available.

Publication Information

No information currently available.

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

Partial interest received prior to 2008

Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above

There was an understanding between the museum and donor prior to 2008, as asserted by both Mr. Young and curator at the time, Dr. Margaret Mayo, and as documented in museum records. VMFA undertook additional due diligence, with Mr. Young's permission, by contacting the Italian Ministry of Culture in September of 2019. VMFA sent the Ministry all available records and images on the known modern history of this object and asked if there might be further information on this object or if the museum should contact anyone else for further information. The museum received a response from the Italian Ministry of Culture in October of 2019, stating that the Comando Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale undertook an investigation and determined that they currently had no objections to the museum accepting this donation.

This work has provenance documented to 1987, although the Museum is not able to verify that date. VMFA decided to make an exception to the AAMD guidelines in order to bring this object into a free, publicly accessible, educational institution, where it could be studied, displayed, and publicized.

Provenance Information

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

Exhibition Information

N/A

Publication Information

Ian McPhee and Arthur Dale Trendall, Greek Red-Figured Fish-Plates (Basel, Switzerland: Vereinigung der Freunde Antiker Kunst, 1987), pl. 49–50, fig. 3–5, 7, 71.

"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

Letter of April 20, 1994 to Erika Hughes from A.D. Trendall regarding this vase; correspondence regarding beuqest prior to 2008

Provenance Information

Possibly collection of Raymond Duncan (brother of Isadora Duncan); Robert Hecht, New York, said to have been acquired from the above in the 1960s; Yale University Art Gallery, purchased from the above, 1994.

Exhibition Information

Passionate Acts in Greek Art and Myth, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 11/19/1993–03/13/1994

Publication Information

Haiganuch Sarian, "Iconographie Classique et identités regionales," Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 14 (1986): 25-35; "Acquisitions, January 1994–December 1995," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1995–96): 154–55, ill; Susan B. Matheson, "Hounded by Furies," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1997–98): 18–29, fig. 1a–b, 2, 3.

Florence Z. Wolsky, Passionate Acts in Greek Art and Myth, exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Nov. 19, 1993-Mar. 13, 1994), 26–27.

Adolf Michaelis, Ancient Marbles in Great Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1882), 648.

Cornelius Vermeule and Dietrich von Bothmer, "Notes on a New Edition of Michaelis: Ancient Marbles in Great Britain," American Journal of Archaeology 60 (1956): 146.;;Royal Athena Galleries, New York, Art of the Ancient World, sale cat. (1993)."

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

Believed to have been sold at a New York gallery in the 1960s