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Black-Figure Trefoil Oinochoe (Wine Jug): Europa on Bull

c. 530 BC

attributed to Class of Vatican 440

(Greek, Attic)

Greece, Attic

Ceramic

Overall: 23.6 cm (9 5/16 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1929.978

Location

102B Greek

Description

Zeus, in the form of a bull, abducts Europa.

Artist biography

Class of Vatican 440

Attic vase painters

Provenance

?-1929

(Mr. Mario de Ciccio, Naples, Italy, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1929-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. BAPD 303205 www.beazley.ox.ac.uk

Cox, Warren E. The Book of Pottery and Porcelain. New York: L. Lee and Shepard Co.; distributed by Crown Publishers, 1944. Vol. I, p. 53, pl. 12.

Beazley, J. D. Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956. p. 422, No. 43

Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. p. 12, plate 17, 3-4

Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae (LIMC). Zürich: Artemis, 1981. IV, PL.34, EUROPA I 29, p. 169, Fig.11

Carpenter, Thomas H., J. D. Beazley, Thomas Mannack, Melanie Mendonça, and Lucilla Burn. Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV² & Paralipomena. Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1989. p. 109

Exhibition history

The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).

Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art (September 11-October 10, 1965).

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attributed to Class of Vatican 440

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