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PROPERTY FROM THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITIONS FUND

A MYCENAEAN PAINTED POTTERY PIRIFORM JAR
CIRCA 1350-1300 B.C.
6 ½ in. (16.5 cm.) high

PROVENANCE
Luigi Palma di Cesnola (1832-1904, first director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1868-1873.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1873-1916.
Edward Drummond Libbey (1854-1925), gifted to The Toledo Museum of Art, 1916 (Accession no. 1916.114).

LITERATURE
C.G. Boulter and K.T. Luckner, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, The Toledo Museum of Art, Fasc. 2, Toledo, 1984, pp. 1-2, pl. 61.4.
Beazley Archive Database no. 9001870.
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