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Griffin-Bird Painter (Greek, active ca. 575-530 BCE) (Artist)
ca. 540-530 BCE (Archaic)
terracotta; black figure
(Ancient Greece )

The exterior of this Siana cup (so-called because many cups of this shape have been found at Siana, Rhodes) displays deer between lotus ornaments and palmettes, with dolphins. A bird is depicted on the interior.

Provenance
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Castel Campanile 1837 [from label on vase at time of acquisition]; Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Conservation

Date Description Narrative
7/27/1987 Treatment x-ray
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Geographies

Greece, Attica (Place of Origin)

Measurements

H: 4 7/16 x W: 10 5/8 x Diam: 8 7/16 in. (11.3 x 27 x 21.4 cm)

Credit Line

Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.

48.36

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