id: 128045
accession number: 1950.7
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Mirror, c. 470–460 BCE. Greece, Sicyon(?). Bronze; diameter: 15.3 cm (6 in.); overall: 38.8 cm (15 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1950.7
title: Mirror
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creation date: c. 470–460 BCE
creation date earliest: -470
creation date latest: -460
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creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Greece, Sicyon(?)
technique: bronze
department: Greek and Roman Art
collection: GR - Greek
type: Metalwork
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CREATORS
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measurements: Diameter: 15.3 cm (6 in.); Overall: 38.8 cm (15 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture
opening date: 1975-09-24T04:00:00
Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).
title: Mirrors: Art and Symbol
opening date: 1984-07-03T04:00:00
Mirrors: Art and Symbol. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 3-November 18, 1984).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Exhibition of Ancient Greek Art, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London (1904)', 'opening_date': '1904-01-01T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Sir Francis Cook, Richmond, England
date:
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Wyndham F. Cook
date: 1908?
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Humphrey W. Cook
date: ?-1925
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(Christie, Manson, & Wood, July 14, 1925)
date: 1925
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(The International Studio Art Corp, Sold to Joseph Brummer Gallery)
date: ?-1940
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(Joseph Brummer Gallery, New York, NY, Sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: 1940-1950
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1950-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
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page number: Mentioned p. 204
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Michaelis, Adolf, and C. A. M. Fennell. Ancient Marbles in Great Britain. Cambridge: University Press, 1882.
page number: p. 631, no. 39
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Burlington Fine Arts Club, and Eugénie Strong. Exhibition of Ancient Greek Art. London: Printed for the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1904.
page number: Mentioned p. 38, cat. no. 8, Reproduced pl. XLV
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Schebelew, Materialen zur Archaologie Russlands, vol. XXXII (1907).
page number: p. 22ff.
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Smith, Cecil Harcourt-, and Caroline Amy Hutton. Catalogue of the Antiquities (Greek, Etruscan and Roman) in the Collection of the Late Wyndham Francis Cook. London: Printed by Metchim for private circulation, 1908.
page number: No. 46, Plate XXXV
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Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (London, England). The Journal of Hellenic Studies. London: Published by the Council of the Society (1908)
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page number: p. 45, pl. 25
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Cook, Humphrey W., and Sir Francis Cook. Catalogue of an Important Collection of Greek, Roman and Etruscan Antiquities, and Antique and Renaissance Gems, the Property of Humphrey W. Cook ... Being a Portion of the Celebrated Collection Formed by the Late Sir Francis Cook, Bart. Which Will Be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Christie Manson & Woods. [London]: [publisher not identified], 1925.
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page number: no. 20
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page number: p. 30, no. 5
url:
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page number: N4567
url: https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll9/id/14945/rec/2
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page number: p. 4-15
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141679
"Recent Important Acquisitions of American Collections" The Art Quarterly (Spring 1951).
page number: p. 80, 83-4
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Karouzou, Semnē. Attic Bronze Mirrors. [Robinson Studies, Vol. 1 (1951).
page number: p. 585
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International Association for Classical Archaeology. Fasti archaeologici. Firenze: Sansoni Editore, Vol. VI (1953).
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Jacobsthal, Paul. Greek Pins and Their Connexions with Europe and Asia. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956.
page number: p. 112
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 13
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n18
H.G. Niemeyer, Promachos (1960).
page number: p. 53, n. 194
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 21
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n45
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 21
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n43
Hoffmann, Herbert. Collecting Greek Antiquities. New York: C.N. Potter, 1971.
page number: p. 53-56, figs. 43a,b
url:
Cleveland Museum of Art, Gabriel P. Weisberg, and H. W. Janson. Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1975.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 22
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n42
Tölle-Kastenbein, Renate. Frühklassische Peplosfiguren: Originale. Mainz am Rhein: P. von Zabern, 1980.
page number: p. 136-7, cat. no. 19c
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Congdon, Lenore O. Keene. Caryatid Mirrors of Ancient Greece: Technical, Stylistic and Historical Considerations of an Archaic and Early Classical Bronze Series. Mainz am Rhein: P. von Zabern, 1981.
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Kozloff, Arielle P., and Sara Jane Pearman. "Further Reflections." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 8 (1984).
page number: p. 276-79
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159879
Kozloff, Arielle P. Classical Art: A Brief Guide to the Collection, the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Museum, 1989.
page number: p. 6
url:
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
page number: Reproduced: p. 8
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n23
Schwarzmeier, Agnes. "A Greek Box Mirror in the Cleveland Museum of Art." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 9 (1993): 354-67.
page number: Mentioned: p. 366
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161429
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