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Oil flask (aryballos) with Bellerophon attacking the Chimaera
Greek
Orientalizing Period, Middle Protocorinthian
about 650 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Corinthia, Corinth
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Black Figure
Dimensions
Height: 6.8 cm (2 11/16 in.); diameter: 3.8 cm (1 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Catharine Page Perkins Fund
Accession Number95.10
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 400.
DescriptionPrincipal design: Bellerophon attacking the Chimaera. Below, a band of dogs chasing a hare.
ProvenanceSaid to come from Thebes [see note 1]. By 1894, sold by an unknown dealer, Athens, to Edward Perry Warren (b. 1860 - d. 1928), Rome and London; 1895, sold by Warren to the MFA for $29,857.37 [see note 2]. (Accession Date: January 1, 1895)
NOTES:
[1] According to Warren's records, this was "bought from an Athenian dealer, who said it came from Thebes." [2] Total price for MFA accession nos. 95.9 - 95.174.
NOTES:
[1] According to Warren's records, this was "bought from an Athenian dealer, who said it came from Thebes." [2] Total price for MFA accession nos. 95.9 - 95.174.