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

A MYCENAEAN PAINTED POTTERY STIRRUP JAR
CIRCA 1400-1100 B.C.
4 ½ in. (11.4 cm.) diameter

PROVENANCE
Luigi Palma di Cesnola (1832-1904), the first director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1868-1873.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1873-1916.
Edward Drummond Libbey (1854-1925), Toledo, gifted to The Toledo Museum of Art, 1916 (Accession no. 1916.115).

LITERATURE
C.G. Boulter and K.T. Luckner, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, The Toledo Museum of Art, Fasc. 2, Toledo, 1984, p. 1, pl. 61.3.
Beazley Archive Database no. 9001869.
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