id:			94972
accession number:	1915.532
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.532
updated:		2023-03-03 07:01:05.505000

Protocorinthian (Early Black-Figure) Aryballos (Oil Flask): Animals, c. 650–640 BC. Greek, Corinthian. Ceramic; overall: 13.7 cm (5 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1915.532

title:				Protocorinthian (Early Black-Figure) Aryballos (Oil Flask): Animals
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creation date:			c. 650–640 BC
creation date earliest:		-645
creation date latest:		-645
current location:		102B Greek
creditline:			Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
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culture:	Greek, Corinthian
technique:	ceramic
department:	Greek and Roman Art
collection:	GR - Greek
type:		Ceramic
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measurements: Overall: 13.7 cm (5 3/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Through Harold Woodbury Parsons, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1915
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1915-
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fun fact:
Artists may have used a compass-like tool to create the intricate scale patterns.

digital description:
Tongues encircle the rim, shoulder, and base of this small oil vessel, while two carefully incised bands of scales frame an animal frieze. Here, amid dot rosettes, are a bull, dog, and goat, all facing right, and a left-facing lion with head turned back. The black glaze has misfired red in many places, while added red enlivens numerous tongues, scales, and internal details.

wall description:
Corinthian pottery during the 8th and 7th centuries BC was as popular an export commodity as Mycenean ware was several centuries earlier. Protocorinthian design was very finely drawn in a miniaturist style. The use of animal friezes shows Near Eastern influences.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Beazley Archive. n.d. <em>Beazley Archive Pottery Database</em>. Oxford: Beazley Archive.
	page number: 	BAPD 1001464
	url:		http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/3DD5D707-04D4-4C0A-AFA1-ADDE05BB6E99

	R. H. "Recent Accessions of Greek Pottery." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 10, no. 10 (1923): 178-91.
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	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136705.

	Benson, J. L. "Some Notes on Corinthian Vase-Painters." <em>American Journal of Archaeology</em> 60, no. 3 (1956).
	page number: 	p. 221, Pl.69, Figs. 7-8
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/500149

	Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. <em>Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum.</em> Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971.
	page number: 	p. 4, plate 3, 2-5
	url:		http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/XDB/ASP/browseCVARecord.asp?id={3DD5D707-04D4-4C0A-AFA1-ADDE05BB6E99}&startRef=

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