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Mixing bowl (bell krater)

about 380–370 B.C.
Place of ManufactureApulia, Italy
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, Red Figure
DimensionsHeight: 36.2 cm (14 1/4 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Alfred Ajami, Esther Anderson, Edith Bundy, Robert S. Czachor, Barbara and Lawrence A. Fleischman, Jonathan H. Kagan, Bruce and Ingrid McAlpine, Josephine L. Murray, Robin Symes, and Catherine C. Vermeule
Accession number1988.532
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsVessels
Provenance1976, Palladion Antike Kunst, Basel [see note 1]. Holger Termer, Hamburg [see note 2]. By 1985, Royal-Athena Galleries, New York [see note 3]; 1988, sold by Royal-Athena Galleries to the MFA [see note 4]; September 21, 2006, deaccessioned by the MFA for transfer to the Republic of Italy.

NOTES:
[1] In the 1976 Palladion catalogue, no. 43. [2] According to A. D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, Second Supplement to the Red-Figured Vases of Apulia (London, 1991), p. 23: "ex Termer coll., Hamburg, then New York Market, Royal-Athena Galleries." [3] Royal Athena Galleries, Art of the Ancient World, IV, no. 105. [4] MFA accession date: December 21, 1988.

For further information, please see: http://www.mfa.org/collections/provenance/antiquities-and-cultural-property/italian-ministry-of-culture-agreement
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