id: 156119 accession number: 1991.50 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.50 updated: 2023-03-14 12:01:45.541000 Monkey-Shaped Aryballos (Oil Vessel), c. 580 BC. East Greek, probably Milesian. Ceramic; diameter of mouth: 2 cm (13/16 in.); overall: 9 cm (3 9/16 in.); diameter of base: 3.7 cm (1 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Dr. Leo Mildenberg in honor of Arielle P. Kozloff 1991.50 title: Monkey-Shaped Aryballos (Oil Vessel) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 580 BC creation date earliest: -585 creation date latest: -575 current location: 102B Greek creditline: Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Dr. Leo Mildenberg in honor of Arielle P. Kozloff copyright: --- culture: East Greek, probably Milesian technique: ceramic department: Greek and Roman Art collection: GR - Greek type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Diameter of mouth: 2 cm (13/16 in.); Overall: 9 cm (3 9/16 in.); Diameter of base: 3.7 cm (1 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Notable Acquisitions opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Notable Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 15, 1991). title: Aus Noah Arche - antike Tierbilder der Sammlung Mildenberg opening date: 1996-10-10T00:00:00 Aus Noah Arche - antike Tierbilder der Sammlung Mildenberg. Prähistorische Staatssammlung, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Munich (October 10, 1996-January 12, 1997). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Classical Art from a New York Collection, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY (27 September-16 November 1977). * Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (21 October-29 November 1981). * Tierbilder aus vier Jahrtausenden aus der Sammlung Mildenberg, Antikenmuseum Berlin, (26 March-5 June 1983); Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Kassel, (1 July-25 September 1983); Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, (January-April 1984); Prähistorische Staatsammlung, Munich, (May-July 1984); Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Freiburg, (1984). * Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection, Archaeological (Rockefeller) Museum, Jerusalem (Autumn 1986-May 1987). --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1991- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: An aryballos is a small jar for scented oils and perfumes. digital description: wall description: Perfume flasks in the form of a monkey are numerous, but few are as well made and preserved as this one. The flask was worn suspended from the wrist by a cord. Its owner would take it to the communal baths and anoint himself with its contents afterward. Such flasks have been found throughout the Mediterranean and Egypt, but this vessel was likely made at a Greek settlement on the west coast of Asia Minor. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. page number: BAPD 1002947 url: http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/7C0ED709-65E4-4789-B068-F0286ACDFCCC Ducat, Jean. Les Vases plastiques rhodiens archaïques en terre cuite. Paris: F., de Boccard, 1966. page number: p. 122, no. C-2 url: André Emmerich Gallery. Classical Art from a New York Collection: An Exhibition of Ancient Bronzes, Figurative Plastic Vases and Other Ancient Works of Art, Organized in Cooperation with Münzen Und Medaillen AG, Basle, Switzerland, September 27-November 16, 1977. New York: André Emmerich Gallery, 1977. page number: no. 13 url: Kozloff, Arielle P., and Leo Mildenberg. Animals in Ancient Art: From the Leo Mildenberg Collection. Cleveland (Ohio): Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. page number: p. 117, no. 98 url: Gehrig, Ulrich. Tierbilder aus vier Jahrtausenden: Antiken aus Sammlung Mildenberg. Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, 1983. page number: p. 102, no. 98 url: Kozloff, Arielle P., David Gordon Mitten, and Michel Sguaitamatti. More Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1986. page number: no. 42 url: Turner, Evan H., Alan Chong, Henry Hawley, Jane Glaubinger, Tom E. Hinson, Henry John Drewal, Margaret Young-Sánchez, Stanislaw J. Czuma, J. Keith Wilson, Michael R. Cunningham, Lawrence M. Berman, Ariellé P. Kozloff, Renate Eikelmann, Michael J. Miller, Anne E. Wardwell, and Bruce Robertson. "Notable Acquisitions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 78, no. 3 (1991) page number: p. 70 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161319 Zahlhaas, Gisela. Aus Noahs Arche: Tierbilder der Sammlung Mildenberg aus fünf Jahrtausenden. München: P. von Zabern, 1996. page number: no. 62, p. 80, no. 138, p. 177 url: Mottahedeh, Patricia Erhart, and Gisela Zahlhaas. Out of Noah's Ark: Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenburg Collection. Mainz: P. von Zabern, 1997. page number: p. 80, no. 62, 177 url: Neils, Jenifer, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, OH]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. page number: pp. 23-24, pl. 59.3-7 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1991.50/1991.50_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1991.50/1991.50_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1991.50/1991.50_full.tif