id: 106153 accession number: 1924.259 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1924.259 updated: 2023-01-10 19:24:28.079000 Geometric Pitcher: Swans, c. 740–730 BC. Attributed to Swan Painter (Greek, Attic, Late Geometric Ib-IIa). Ceramic; overall: 36.2 cm (14 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1924.259 title: Geometric Pitcher: Swans title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 740–730 BC creation date earliest: -745 creation date latest: -725 current location: 102B Greek creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- culture: Greek, Attic technique: ceramic department: Greek and Roman Art collection: GR - Greek type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Swan Painter (Greek, Attic, Late Geometric Ib-IIa) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 36.2 cm (14 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Five Materials. Ursuline College, Extensions Exhibitions, Pepper Pike, OH (Nov. 1 1983 - Jan. 19, 1984); Beck Center, Lakewood, OH (Sept, 9- Nov. 4, 1984). --- PROVENANCE Costis Lembessis, sold to Brummer Gallery date: ?-1923 footnotes: citations: Brummer Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1923-1924 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1924- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The stylized swans lend their name to the otherwise anonymous decorator of this vase. digital description: A common shape in the Late Geometric period, the pitcher often attains large dimensions, offering the painter multiple zones for decoration. Here, standing leaves encircle the shoulder, while the neck and body bear wide bands with alternating squares of swans and swastikas. Also known as a hooked cross, the swastika appears frequently as a decorative motif in Greek Geometric pottery, without any clear meaning. The swans, though somewhat abstracted to modern eyes, likely represent one of many waterfowl species native to Greece. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. page number: BAPD 1001465 url: http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/1431B6A2-176D-4BB0-BCE5-ECAC33E56904 The Brummer Gallery Records. Cloisters (Museum), n.d. page number: P542 url: https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll9/id/23464 Hubbell, H. M., and William S. Anderson. Yale Classical Studies, Volume Sixteen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961. page number: pp. 78-79, 153, fig. 112 url: Coldstream, J. N. Greek Geometric Pottery: A Survey of Ten Local Styles and Their Chronology. London: Methuen, 1968. page number: pp. 70-71 url: Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. page number: p. 3, pl. I, 3-4 url: Coldstream, J. N. Greek Geometric Pottery: A Survey of Ten Local Styles and Their Chronology. Exeter, Devon: Bristol Phoenix Press, 2008. page number: p. 70, XI.2 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1924.259/1924.259_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1924.259/1924.259_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1924.259/1924.259_full.tif