id:			106153
accession number:	1924.259
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url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1924.259
updated:		2022-06-18 09:00:14.210000

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
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creation date:			c. 740–730 BC
creation date earliest:		-745
creation date latest:		-725
current location:		102B Greek
creditline:			Dudley P. Allen Fund
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culture:	Greek, Attic
technique:	ceramic
department:	Greek and Roman Art
collection:	GR - Greek
type:		Ceramic
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CREATORS

* Swan Painter (Greek, Attic, Late Geometric Ib-IIa)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 36.2 cm (14 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Five Materials. </em>Ursuline College, Extensions Exhibitions, Pepper Pike, OH (Nov. 1 1983 - Jan. 19, 1984); Beck Center, Lakewood, OH (Sept, 9- Nov. 4, 1984).

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PROVENANCE

	Costis Lembessis, sold to Brummer Gallery
	date: ?-1923
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	Brummer Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1923-1924
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1924-
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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.

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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 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. <em>Yale Classical Studies,</em> Volume Sixteen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961.
	page number: 	pp. 78-79, 153, fig. 112
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	Coldstream, J. N. <em>Greek Geometric Pottery: A Survey of Ten Local Styles and Their Chronology.</em> London: Methuen, 1968.
	page number: 	pp. 70-71
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	Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. <em>Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum.</em> Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971.
	page number: 	p. 3, pl. I, 3-4
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	Coldstream, J. N. <em>Greek Geometric Pottery: A Survey of Ten Local Styles and Their Chronology</em>. Exeter, Devon: Bristol Phoenix Press, 2008.
	page number: 	p. 70, XI.2
	url:		

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